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| 8 | ->''"A lumbering hulk aside a delicate flower,\ |
| 9 | A gentle leviathan of terrible power"'' |
| 10 | -->-- '''Music/MiracleOfSound''', "[[VideoGame/BioShock Little Sister]]" |
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| 12 | Some writers like pairing up characters of the opposite sex and opposite ends of the size spectrum. The height difference goes well beyond OneHeadTaller, and the tall one is often several times wider to boot. |
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| 14 | Averted more often than not in {{film}} and LiveActionTV, where [[ScullyBox props and camera angles]] are employed to equalize the heights of the leading man and lady, to make filming easier (otherwise, getting them in the same shot would be a pain in the arse). Even when the actors themselves represent this trope, if it appears on screen you can be sure there was an intentional choice to invoke it. |
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| 16 | Usually, it's the man who's bigger. This is an exaggeration with some basis in truth: men on average are taller than women, and many people choose opposite-sex mates with the "traditional" comparative height. Physical attraction aside, the image of a hulking giant showing his soft side for his little lady is popular with many viewers. |
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| 18 | The relationship is not always romantic or sexual. Sometimes, the girl is a MoralityPet who hangs out with the guy to show he isn't a brute, or it could just be a platonic friendship. They could even be relatives. See also BadassAndChildDuo, which is not as tied to gender, but often goes this way. MonsterAndTheMaiden often overlaps, since the "monster" is often much larger and physically imposing than the "maiden" (though not always). |
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| 20 | [[ActionDuo In an action series]], the guy may ''look'' big enough to break his girl like a toothpick, but she is likely to be [[WaifFu just as deadly as her man]]. |
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| 22 | The inversion of this, which is not as common in real life, is TinyGuyHugeGirl. %%Can overlap with Small Parent Huge Child for mother-son pairings. |
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| 24 | !!Examples: |
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| 28 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 29 | * ''Manga/TheAncientMagusBride'' features this with the two titular characters; Chise (5'1") is a 16-year-old Japanese girl whose smallness and frailty are mentioned fairly frequently, whereas Elias (6'7"), her skull-faced "fiancé", towers a few feet above nearly every other character in the series, even without the horns. Highlighted whenever they hug or he picks her up. Highlighted further when he [[spoiler:transforms into a giant monster that easily fills an entire room]]. |
| 30 | * ''Manga/AniGaImoutoDeImoutoGaAniDe'' has two pairs of these. Youta Koizumi and Kakeru Mayama are fairly tall teenage boys. Hikaru Koizumi and Yurika Oda, the two teenage girls they swap bodies with, are tiny. While their heights aren't explicitly given, they appear to be about 122 cm tall. |
| 31 | * ''Literature/{{Anpanman}}'' has a few of these. There's Jongara-kun and Bachi-chan, Tahara-kun and Rice-chan, and Hotcakeman and Sryup-chan. |
| 32 | * While Deunan in ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'' is actually rather tall compared to most women and quite strong, Briareos can only be described as huge. Next to him, Deunan does look rather tiny. They also venture into the BeastAndBeauty territory thanks to Briareos being a [[FullConversionCyborg full-body cyborg]]. |
| 33 | ** In the second movie, this seems to be less overt and seems a little closer to the OneHeadTaller region. He's still significantly more buff than Deunan, so it probably still counts. |
| 34 | * ''Anime/ArmitageIII'': Armitage is already short, to begin with (152 cm/4ft 11)but, when standing next to her partner, Ross Syllibus (who's 191 cm/6ft 3 of solid muscle), she looks like a child. Which isn't helped by the fact that she looks no older than 13-14 years old, [[OlderThanTheyLook despite being an adult]] and [[NotHyperbole literally]] [[{{Stripperiffic}} dressing like a hooker]]. |
| 35 | * In the original ''Manga/AstroBoy'' manga's ''World's Greatest Robot'' story arc, the developing relationship between Astro Boy's younger sister Uran and the giant robot Pluto. Uran helped turn Pluto from a {{proud|WarriorRaceGuy}} BloodKnight into someone genuinely trying to find something in life more than just fighting. |
| 36 | * ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': |
| 37 | ** [[AmbiguouslyBi Reiner (6'2")]] and [[TheQuietOne Bertolt (6'4")]], the two tallest members of the 104th Trainee Corps, [[UnreliableExpositor may]] have romantic interests in the two shortest girls in the Trainee Corps. Like most things in the series, [[ShipTease things]] are still unclear. |
| 38 | ** Post-timeskip, [[spoiler: Eren (183cm) gets a lot of ambiguously shippy interactions with Historia, the shortest member of the 104th]]. |
| 39 | * ''Anime/{{Basquash}}'' has Sela and Navi. While Sela is normal-sized, Navi is a literal Giant who's as big as the Bigfoot mecha. |
| 40 | * In ''Manga/{{Beastars}}'', Haru (3'4.8") the bunny stands at the height of Legosi (6'2") the wolf's waist. |
| 41 | * In ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', the exceptionally tall and muscular protagonist Guts has a tendency to form [[IntergenerationalFriendship intergenerational friendships]] with small-statured teenage girls he meets on his journeys. [[NaiveEverygirl Jill]], who serves as his MoralityPet during the "Lost Children" arc, is one example. He definitely has this dynamic with the young witch [[BadassAdorable Schierke (3'11")]], who supports him in combat with her magic and clings to him in her astral form in order to keep him from losing his mind while he's enclosed in the Berserker Armor. In both of these cases, the girl has a PrecociousCrush on Guts, while his feelings fall under BigBrotherInstinct. |
| 42 | * ''Manga/{{Blame}}'': [[spoiler:Cibo and Killy, after Cibo's body is destroyed and she ends up occupying a new, much smaller one.]] |
| 43 | * ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': |
| 44 | ** Kenpachi (202 cm/6'7.5") is perhaps the most masculine character in the series, being a very strong and physically imposing man who is ridiculously obsessed with the [[BloodKnight adrenaline rush]] of battle. Meanwhile, his constant companion Yachiru (109 cm/3'7") is a [[KillerRabbit (seemingly) sweet little girl]]. As lieutenant of the combat-renowned 11th Division, she's more than earned the right to be second-in-command, but the reason she can ride around on Kenpachi's back is that she's so very tiny compared to his great size. |
| 45 | ** Rukia, who stands at 144cm or roughly 4'9" - is this with practically ''all'' the main male characters. This dynamic is especially apparent between her and her ChildhoodFriend [[spoiler: and later husband]], Renji, who is 188cm or around 6'2" - she only comes up to his ''elbow''. |
| 46 | * In ''Anime/BlueCometSPTLayzner'', Eiji Asuka and Anna Stephanie flip-flop between this and OneHeadTaller. While Eiji isn't the tallest member of the cast, Anna is positively ''tiny'' and Eiji seems to have difficulty to even give her a hug. [[spoiler: When they [[TheBigDamnKiss kiss]], he has to lean very low ''and'' she has to tiptoe.]] There is also Eiji's older sister Julia and BigBad Ru-Kain; she's of normal height, maybe slightly taller than average even, but he's MASSIVE [[NotDrawnToScale and sometimes he's drawn even bigger than he actually is.]] |
| 47 | * ''Manga/BioMeatNectar'': |
| 48 | ** [[ActionGirl Kano]][[DeadpanSnarker miya]] and [[StoutStrength Ban]][[BoisterousBruiser ba]] evolve into a [[LikeBrotherAndSister platonic]] [[FireForgedFriends version]] of this by the time they're in highschool. |
| 49 | ** By the time [[ShesAllGrownUp They're All Grown Up]] and dangerously close to PlatonicLifePartners, cute highschoolers [[TagalongKid Luna]] and [[YoungerThanTheyLook Kiryuu]] take a romantic, drastic version of this trope. |
| 50 | * ''Anime/BrigadoonMarinAndMelan'' gives us Melan Blue, a robot a little taller than (most) human beings, and Marin, a young teenager who seems to be short for her age. |
| 51 | * An extreme example occurs in ''Manga/ChoujinGakuen'', where the male lead, Adam Shinjou, is about 1.8 m (5'11") tall, and the female lead, Oska L. Duke is... 61 cm (2 feet) tall. Ironically, Oska is the older of the two, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld by a wide margin.]] [[BadassAdorable She's also much stronger than he is.]] |
| 52 | * ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'': Rosette (5'4") and Chrono (5'1") don't look like this at first, and might even look like an [[TinyGuyHugeGirl inversion]], but the cute little boy thing is just his SleepModeSize -- In his real form, Chrono (7'0) completely towers over the girl. |
| 53 | * Riful and Dauf in ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'', he being a large, mostly unintelligent brute and she being a tiny girl, most noticeable when he's in his Awakened form and she's perched in human form on his shoulder. They also have a pastime of [[ToThePain torturing people]] to make them [[BodyHorror Awaken]]. Ironically [[InvertedTrope inverted]] whenever ''she'' Awakens, as while Dauf's Awakened form is huge, hers is ''colossal.'' |
| 54 | * Sakura's parents in ''Manga/CodeBreaker''. Dad is a normal/tallish katana-wielding retired badass ill guy, mom is a tiny MoeBlob who loves costumes. |
| 55 | * ''Anime/CodeGeass'': 6'3" Li Xingke (24) and 4'8" Empress Tianzi (13). This was a romantic relationship, at least for Tianzi. She was even about to be married to Prince Odysseus who looks to at least be in his thirties until Zero stopped the marriage ceremony. |
| 56 | * In ''Manga/DailyLivesOfHighSchoolBoys'', Motoharu is OneHeadTaller than his older sister. This, however, does not prevent the latter from [[BigBrotherBully bully]] him once a while. |
| 57 | * ''Manga/DanceInTheVampireBund'' presents Akira Kaburagi, a taller-than-average 17-year-old high school senior, and Mina Tepes, who [[OlderThanTheyLook looks like she belongs in the sixth grade]] (at best) and is about chest high to him. |
| 58 | * ''Manga/DragonBall'' invokes it between Chi-chi (5'4") and her father (over 13 feet), the aptly named "Ox King". |
| 59 | ** The Ox King and his late wife as well; the only known image of her is a family portrait where she's ''[[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/dragonball/images/3/31/Chichismom.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110719020028 sitting on his upturned palm]].'' |
| 60 | * ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'' has Broly and Cheelai, though the exact nature of their relationship is a little vague. They haven't been given official heights (aside from a whopping 300cm (9'10") for Broly's Legendary Super Saiyan form), but Broly is enormous even in his base form and Cheelai is shorter than the 164cm (5'4") Vegeta. |
| 61 | * ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'' has a platonic example: Shizuo [[IntergenerationalFriendship winds up befriending a 10-year-old]] YakuzaPrincess named Akane. Given a charitable estimate, Akane probably grazes 122 cm (4'0"). In contrast, Shizuo is 185 cm (6'1"). Side-by-side, [[http://i726.photobucket.com/albums/ww262/CapZiggy/05_006-008.jpg she reaches only up to his waist]]. |
| 62 | * In ''Manga/EatMan'', protagonists Bolt's average GirlOfTheWeek's head hovers somewhere around his chest, and only has a third of his shoulder width. With his BadassLongcoat on, you'd probably never notice most of them if they're standing behind him. |
| 63 | * When Ooshima is shown standing face to face (or... stomach to face...) with his girlfriend Misaki in ''Manga/{{Emerging}}'', it is clear to the reader that he is almost exactly twice her height. |
| 64 | * Gajeel and Levy of ''Manga/FairyTail''. Gajeel stands several meters taller than Levy and, at one point, single-handedly lifts her off the ground. Levy meanwhile is possibly the shortest member of the guild. (Not counting the Exceed Squad) |
| 65 | * Eas/Setsuna and Westar/Hayato of ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure''. The exact nature of their relationship is up for debate, but they do have a strong connection to one another either way. |
| 66 | * ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': |
| 67 | ** [[AntiHero Scar]] and [[CuteBruiser Mei]]. Scar is a grown man who is like an AloofBigBrother while Mei is a tiny child. |
| 68 | ** Of the more shippy variant is [[GentleGiant Al]] and Mei, due to Al's current bound-to-a-frickin-huge-suit-of-armor form. And -- before the inevitable comments -- Al is only 14 and not that much older than Mei, and he's also never ''technically'' been through puberty since he spent his teenhood so far outside of his physical body and in a suit of armor. [[spoiler: After the series, they both have growth spurts and the difference between them is minimal. Also, [[MaybeEverAfter they may or may not have hooked up.]]]] |
| 69 | ** Another [[HappilyMarried romantic example]] is Sig and Izumi Curtis. Sig is well over a head taller than Izumi, and about 2-3 times her width on top of that. |
| 70 | * ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'' has one instance when Sousuke (5'9") was piloting the Arbalest while carrying Kaname (5'5") in one hand and Kurz in the other. She was rather enjoying herself until he suddenly threw her into the air to free up one arm for attacking and then caught her on the way down. Needless to say, she didn't appreciate it. |
| 71 | * ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'': |
| 72 | ** Yui Hongou and her chief Seiryuu Seishi-slash-confidante, Nakago, are at least ten inches apart. |
| 73 | ** In a non-romantic subversion ([[spoiler:not that the first example was romantic anyway]]), Miaka is only three or four inches taller than Chiriko, but he's only shown to be up to her waist. |
| 74 | * Ken and Shoko Shiina in ''Manga/FutariEcchi''. Ken looks like a Yakuza thug, while Shoko looks like a little girl, despite being in her mid-20s. |
| 75 | * Another non-romantic example in ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'': Mamoru is a short 9-year-old who barely comes up to Gai's waist (and that's because of his hair). See also Volfogg, a TransformingMecha who protects Mamoru as one of his primary duties, and Mike Sounders the 13th, who is probably the closest to Mamoru after Gai. |
| 76 | * Kazuya Kujo (174 cm/5ft 9) and Victorique de Blois (152.4 cm/5ft) from ''Literature/{{Gosick}}'' |
| 77 | * Bluebeard and Josephine in ''Anime/GrimmsFairyTaleClassics''. Josephine only reaches Bluebeard's shoulders. Apparent to a lesser extent with Maria and the beast in the "Beauty and the Beast" episode. Even in his human form, the beast is considerably taller than Maria. |
| 78 | * In both the source material and anime adaptation of ''Literature/GrimoireOfZero'', Mercenary towers over Zero, and frequently carries her around on his shoulder. In the opening to the anime, he literally picks her up and throws her into the air. |
| 79 | * Various ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' entries did this a lot more than once, e.g: Kamille (5'6"), his Gundam and Kamille's partner Fa in ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]''. |
| 80 | * Zaitsu Misao and Arihara Ayumi of ''Manga/HatsukoiLimited''. Ironically, though he's three times larger than her, Ayumi can still knock Misao out with just one high kick. |
| 81 | * ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'': |
| 82 | ** Alucard (6'3") is far taller than Seras Victoria. |
| 83 | ** Romantic example with Pip and Seras at least in the OAV, where he (and the other wild Geese mercs) is drawn significantly taller than Seras. |
| 84 | * From the picture of them that we see, Joey Jones' parents in ''Manga/{{Heroman}}'', it's kinda like looking at Heroman and Joey side-by-side. And [[DudeLooksLikeALady if you think it applies]], this also goes for Heroman and Joey. |
| 85 | * ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' has some variations. |
| 86 | ** Sweden (5'11.6") and Finland (5'7") are both men, with Sweden being much taller (''at least'' by 12 cm/5 in, according to Finland in one strip). |
| 87 | ** Germany (5'11") and North Italy (5'8"), with the latter having difficulty even ''hugging'' the former. |
| 88 | ** The most blatant example is England (5'9") and America (5'9.6"). Both {{fanon}} dōjinshi ''and'' canon (in the strips) ''greatly'' exaggerate their already existing height difference; technically, America is just .75" (2 cm) taller, but England is drawn much shorter than he truly is (he and 5'9" France are around the same height, according to the charts, but France is drawn taller). This is ''sort'' of {{justified|Trope}} when one thinks about just how much bigger the US is than the UK... |
| 89 | *** The fanart for America and England is absurd. America looks about eight inches taller than England. To think England is the 'big brother'. |
| 90 | *** Russia's sister [[BrotherSisterIncest and]] {{stalker| with a crush}} [[{{Yandere}} Belarus (5'3")]] is at least 20 cm/ 8in shorter. She's also svelte while he's a HuskyRusskie. |
| 91 | ** South Korea, as the tallest of the Asians (apparently tall enough to stand eye-to-eye with ''America''), has these dynamics with almost everyone in the group. [[http://imageftw.com/uploads/20111123/16623816_m.jpg China]] [[http://imageftw.com/uploads/20111123/14073302_m.jpg is the]] [[http://imageftw.com/uploads/20111123/13603067_m.jpg biggest]] [[http://imageftw.com/uploads/20111123/12093500_m.jpg example]] but there's also [[http://imageftw.com/uploads/20111123/21067269_m.jpg Taiwan (4'9")]] and [[http://imageftw.com/uploads/20111123/8374501_m.jpg Hong Kong]] (sometimes). |
| 92 | ** There's also [[{{Ojou}} Monaco]], who is shorter than one of the younger characters, [[ProperLady Liechtenstein]]. In strips with [[BigBrotherMentor France]] or [[LatinLover Serborga]], she barely comes up to their chests, despite the fact that they're both of rather average height. |
| 93 | * In ''Manga/{{Hiyokoi}}'', the main character, Nishiyama Hiyori is only 140 centimeters (4ft 7), while her love interest, Hirose Yuushin, is 190 centimeters (6ft 3). |
| 94 | * [[LovableSexManiac Saji]] and [[{{Tsundere}} Koizumi]] from ''Manga/IketeruFutari'' have this dynamic going on. Saji is only roughly normal height, but Koizumi is ''tiny,'' which makes [[HugeSchoolgirl Yuki]] wonder if it's part of her appeal. |
| 95 | * In ''Manga/IkkiTousen'' we have GentleGiant Kanshou and CuteBruiser Chouhi (which can go either platonic or romantic). Also, TheVamp Kaku and her GeniusBruiser lover Kakuka (he seems to be the only one of Kaku's boyfriends whom she cared for, [[spoiler: as seen in his death scene in ''Dragon Destiny'']]). In a purely platonic sense, the ''other'' GentleGiant Gakushuu and either {{Idiot Hero}}ine Hakufu or {{Tsundere}} Ryoumou. |
| 96 | * ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'': |
| 97 | ** [[NobleDemon Sesshomaru (5'9")]] sort of acquired (or adopted) [[MoralityPet Rin (4'3)]], an eight-year-old girl. Sesshomaru's humanoid form looks nineteen. (His true form is [[{{Kaiju}} much larger]].) |
| 98 | ** Inuyasha's mother (5'2") and father (6'5"). He visits his father's grave and enters his father's remains and has room in his chest to both move around and fight his brother. We see his mother in a flashback and she was a normal-sized human lady. Even in his human size, the father is noticeably taller than she is. |
| 99 | ** Likewise for Sesshoumaru's mother (5'7"), who even in her dog demon form is much smaller than his and Inuyasha's father. |
| 100 | * ''Manga/KarakuriCircus'': While Shirogane is pretty average, Narumi is an enormous martial artist. |
| 101 | * ''Manga/KarakuridoujiUltimo'': |
| 102 | ** Yamato absolutely towers over his love interest Sayama, despite her still being a fairly average height. Then again, there's really only [[HugeSchoolGirl Akitsu]], that Yamato doesn't tower over so he would be an example of this no matter who it was, or what kind of relationship he had. |
| 103 | ** Koganei Hana, a girl who looks no older than five, and Edile the Glutton, a Karakuri Douji the size of a building. |
| 104 | * ''Anime/KillLaKill'' has [[NoIndoorVoice Ira Gamagoori]] and [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Mako Mankanshoku]]. Mako is about the size of an average girl her age, while Gamagoori is a giant whose size [[YourSizeMayVary varies depending on the scene]] (though at his smallest he's easily 7 feet tall and about as wide as Mako herself is tall). The two are on pretty good terms with each other despite being on opposing sides for most of the series. It dips into ShipTease later on when Gamagoori constantly risks his life to protect her. [[spoiler: The epilogue of the series even gave the possibility of him asking her out.]] |
| 105 | * ''Manga/KoiKaze'', whose story involves BrotherSisterIncest, features big and burly 27-year-old [[AloofBigBrother Koshiro]] and his small, cute 15-year-old sister [[BigBrotherWorship Nanoka]]. The conflict between [[BrotherSisterIncest their feelings]] for each other and society's norms is made that much harder because of their size and age difference in addition to being blood siblings. |
| 106 | * ''Manga/LuckyStar'': Konata's (4'8") parents, since her mother Kanata (4'8") was [[OlderThanTheyLook Older Than She Looked]] by a wide margin, and her dad Soujirou (5'11") is kind of a ComedicLolicon. |
| 107 | * Non-romantic (And perhaps all-too-literal) example: Zest and Agito in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers''. Zest and Lutecia, as well, but they don't hang out together as much. This may be a ShoutOut to Zanger Zonvolt and Irui from ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'', as there are quite a few other references in the ''Nanoha'' series. |
| 108 | * ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'': |
| 109 | ** Hikaru (4'9") only comes up to Lantis's waist, but then Creator/{{CLAMP}} has always been a bit silly about proportions. |
| 110 | ** There's also [[GentleGiant Lafarga]] and his girlfriend [[CoolBigSis Caldina]](though in the anime this got downgraded to OneHeadTaller). [[spoiler: And Zagato and Princess Emeraude]]... |
| 111 | * Michel Blanc (5'11") and Kuran Kuran (around 48') from ''Anime/MacrossFrontier''. That is, if Kuran isn't Micloned. If she does, the trope is played straight instead, as she looks [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld much smaller and younger]] than her real age. |
| 112 | * ''Manga/MakenKi'' [[SubvertedTrope subverts]] the trope with Kai and Azuki, who's actually one of the tallest girls at Tenbi Academy. Except Kai's so gigantic, that she (and everyone else, for that matter) looks tiny compared to him. Even without his getta, the top of her head barely reaches his waist level!. |
| 113 | * The main couple of ''Manga/MidoriDays'' would have counted even ''before'' she became his right hand. |
| 114 | * Nozaki and Sakura are the tallest and shortest members of the cast of ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'', respectively. Specifically, they're ''one foot and a half apart'' in height; [[{{Hunk}} Nozaki]] clocks in at 190cm (6'3"), unusually tall for a Japanese person, while Sakura is at 145cm (4'10"), at the low end of Japanese normalcy. |
| 115 | * Nozomu and Rino from ''Manga/MyGirlfriendWithoutWasabi'' (and its parent series ''Manga/ICantUnderstandWhatMyHusbandIsSaying''), the former being slightly above average height and the latter [[OlderThanTheyLook looking like she's eight]]. One of Nozomu's main fears during the time they were dating was that he would end up being MistakenForPedophile. |
| 116 | * Takeo and Yamato from ''Manga/MyLoveStory''. He is 2 meters (6'7") tall and she just barely reaches his chest. |
| 117 | * Touko in ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret'' barely reaches her husband's ''knees''. Not because she's tiny, but because [[OurVampiresAreDifferent he's something like 4 meters (13 feet)-tall.]] They were about the same height in high-school though. |
| 118 | * ''Manga/MySenpaiIsAnnoying'': Futaba is about half as tall as Takeda, which only encourages people to think they're father and daughter. |
| 119 | * ''Manga/{{Oldboy}}'': At least in the manga version, protagonist Shinichi Goto and his girlfriend Eri. He's significantly taller and more heavily built. Her habit of hanging onto his side emphasizes the [[http://view.thespectrum.net/series/oldboy-volume-01.html?ch=Volume+01&page=57 size difference]]. |
| 120 | * In ''Manga/OnePiece'' the late Mermaid Queen (7'4") was a human-sized mermaid who was incredibly fragile. Her husband King Neptune (40') is a giant merman. [[spoiler:Their daughter the Mermaid Princess Shirahoshi (38'11") takes after her mother in looks but takes after her father in size]]. The fact that [[spoiler:the Mermaid Queen being able to survive giving birth to a giant]] isn't the weirdest thing in ''One Piece'' says all that needs to be said about the series. Mainly that it is awesome. |
| 121 | * The anime canon of ''Anime/Persona4TheAnimation'' has Kanji and his interest in [[spoiler: Naoto]]. Yosuke (175cm/5'9") and Narukami (180cm/5'11") are roughly the same height, and the same can be said of Chie (158cm/5'2"), Rise (155cm/5'1") and Yukiko (164cm/5'5") (who are about a head shorter than the first two). Meanwhile, Kanji (183cm/6'0") [[NotDrawnToScale tends to be drawn roughly one to one and a half heads taller]] than Narukami and Yosuke, [[spoiler: Naoto (152cm/5'0")]] is about a head to a head and a half shorter than the rest of the female cast... ''while wearing platformed boots.'' |
| 122 | * ''Manga/PopcornAvatar'': |
| 123 | ** Lisa's parents Daniel and Helen Vayu, though Helen isn't exactly tiny, standing about Lisa's height. Given Daniel's imposing height, however, this is the impression one gets of the couple. |
| 124 | ** Another straight example is Indra's incarnation Amano and her avatar Kai, with Amano barely reaching Kai's chest. |
| 125 | ** Inverted in the case of Lisa and Kurando, where the former stands over the latter by at least half a head. |
| 126 | * An example with two males: Jin Akutsu (6'0") and Taichi Dan (4'1"0) from ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis''. There's also Miyuki Chitose and either her older brother Senri (6'4") or [[BigBrotherMentor "thief-bro" Tezuka (5'10")]], as well as Munehiro Kabaji (6'3") and his (unnamed) older sister... |
| 127 | * Alice (5'0) in ''Manga/PumpkinScissors'' isn't exactly tiny, but she looks it compared to Randal, who's estimated at seven feet tall. |
| 128 | * ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'': Misao (4'10.5") isn't much shorter than Kaoru (5'1"), making her closer to average height for a girl her age. But Aoshi's (5'11") so tall and lanky, that she looks like a kid when standing next to him. |
| 129 | * ''S.S. Astro'' has a platonic example where a small girl and a rather large colleague are participating in a three-legged race at the sports festival. It's not really a fair race when the guy can simply pick up the girl and run off with her. |
| 130 | -->'''Izumi''': Umm... do you think we should switch them with someone else? It looks like he's kidnapping her...\ |
| 131 | '''Yuko''': Personally, I love the combination. |
| 132 | * In ''Manga/{{Sachiare}}'', Tomoharu is of normal height, but his wife Sachiko is so short he basically has to pick her up or sit on the floor to kiss her. |
| 133 | * ''Anime/SacredSeven'': Like many other tropes taken to ridiculous extremes, Alma is (195cm/6'4) to Ruri's (144cm/4'9"). |
| 134 | * The towering, {{Cyborg}} [[HotBlooded Kikuchiyo]] and the pint-sized Komachi from ''Anime/SamuraiSeven''. |
| 135 | * ''Manga/SlamDunk'': Any important male character (except 5'6" Miyagi) when paired with any of the few female characters in the show. It's completely justified though since they're all basketball players, so most of them are 6ft or over. |
| 136 | * Another non-romantic example can be found in ''Anime/SoltyRei''. Roy Revant is 197 cm (6'6") and muscular, while his adoptive daughter Solty is 153 cm (5'0") and slender. |
| 137 | * ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory'': If one reads the manga version, they might get this impression of Ashton and Precis, as in some pages, Ashton appears to be twice Precis's height. In actuality, it's not QUITE a huge difference. According to official records, Ashton is 5'10" (180 cm), while Precis is about 5'1" (155 cm), meaning there's only a 16% difference in height (that still makes Precis fit the tiny girl part of the equation, so they might still be considered as qualified for this trope). |
| 138 | * ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'': |
| 139 | ** Lina Inverse and Gourry Gabriev, at (153 cm/5ft) and (190 cm/6ft 3). There's official art of her sitting on his [[ShouldersOfDoom shoulder]] like a parrot. |
| 140 | ** While Zelgadis is very slender and only about 5'7" (170 cm), he looks much taller when paired with 4'9" (145 cm) Amelia. Amelia grows a bit through the seasons, though, which makes sense when you consider her family [[spoiler: particularly her sister]]. |
| 141 | * Koushi Inuzuka of ''Manga/SumomoMoMomoMo'' is normal-sized, but Momoko herself is tiny enough to compensate. |
| 142 | * Hayase and Hikaru (5'11") get to pull this off near the end of ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'', which Hikaru piloting (obviously). |
| 143 | * ''Literature/{{Toradora}}'': Ryuuji (5'8") is about average-sized; it's [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend his not-girlfriend]] Taiga (4'8.5") that's short. Played up for laughs in the first chapters of the manga, but eventually moves on to the OneHeadTaller range. |
| 144 | * In ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'', [[BadassLongcoat Vash (5'11")]] is almost a foot taller than [[{{Tsundere}} Meryl (4'11)]] and has to really bow down when he wants to hug her, especially in the manga. |
| 145 | * ''Anime/TsukuyomiMoonPhase'' has a few examples: Balgus (Vargus) and Arte are one. The little twins Hikaru and Kouru are engaged to Kouhei and Seiji. |
| 146 | * Mamoru and Haruka from ''Manga/UntilDeathDoUsPart''. She's like only up to his stomach. Or course she's still a kid. |
| 147 | * Lum's parents in ''Manga/UruseiYatsura''. Her mother is the size of an average human woman, while her father is a hulking brute almost twice as tall and more than three times as broad as her. Given that Lum's species are basically Space {{Oni}}, this is to be expected. |
| 148 | * ''Manga/UzakiChanWantsToHangOut'': |
| 149 | ** Sakurai (5'11") is noted as being fairly tall (180cm) and is the tallest character in the main cast, though Asai senior is only slightly shorter than him. Uzaki, on the other hand, is ''extremely'' short, to the point that, when Asai senior first meets her, most of her body is hidden by the counter he's kneeling behind, and he mistakes her for being in middle school, when she's actually 19 and in college. He realises his mistake when he stands up and sees her very large breasts. |
| 150 | ** Slightly downplayed with Uzaki's parents. Fujio is actually close to average height for a Japanese man (5'7"), but he has a muscular build, and since his wife Tsuki is hardly taller than her daughter, he easily towers over her. |
| 151 | * ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'': |
| 152 | ** Emperor Dornkirk invokes an image of Van's (5'5") Escaflowne being guided by Hitomi's prophetic abilities to take over the world in one of his visions. This doesn't happen so explicitly but that's what happens throughout the series. |
| 153 | ** For a straight-up example instead of the GiantRobot variant, we have Hitomi (160 cm/5ft 2) and Allen (185 cm/6ft 1) |
| 154 | * Shiryuu Kusanagi and Yuzuriha Nekoi in ''Manga/{{X 1999}}''. Non-romantic example: Fuuma Monou and his ill sister, Kotori. |
| 155 | * ''Manga/YonaOfTheDawn'' has titular heroine Yona (5'1") and her LoveInterest [[BodyguardCrush Hak (6'2")]]. The top of her head barely reaches his shoulders, and he's packing ''at least'' double the muscle she is. |
| 156 | * ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'': Kuwabara (191 cm/6'3)and his crush Yukina. Her height is never given but she is visibly smaller than her brother Hiei, who stands at 147 cm (4'10"). |
| 157 | ** From the same series is Younger Toguro (9'0") and his ex-girlfriend Genkai. The former easily towers over nearly everyone, and was about a head and shoulders taller than Yusuke when still human, while the latter tops out around the height of a 12-year-old even into old age. |
| 158 | ** Enki and his wife Kokou also qualify. While Kokou's height of 189 cm/6'2 is far from what would be considered "short" by human standards, she's still much shorter than other demons like Yomi (221 cm/7'3), Raizen (266 cm/8'8) and especially her husband Enki (274 cm/8'11). |
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| 160 | |
| 161 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 162 | * ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': |
| 163 | ** In ''Recap/AsterixAndCaesarsGift', it's notable that the reason Obelix feels attracted to Influenza is because of how small and light she is. He mentions how light she is several times, annoying his dog. |
| 164 | ** Both Vitalstatistix and Fulliautomatix are much larger than their tiny wives. |
| 165 | * Creator/DCComics: |
| 166 | ** ComicBook/TheJoker and Harley Quinn (5'7") -- although Joker is sometimes described as only 183 cm (6'0") tall he's more often 191 cm (6'2") or 193 cm (6'3") and drawn in a particularly lanky fashion, while Harley (a former gymnast) barely comes up to his shoulders. |
| 167 | ** ComicBook/SwampThing (6'10") [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/SwampThing22.jpg/250px-SwampThing22.jpg and his wife]], Abigail Holland nee Arcane (5'7"). |
| 168 | ** Al Rothstein (229 cm/7'6") and Courtney Whitmore (166 cm/5'5") in some runs of the JSA. |
| 169 | * In ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'', Dewshine/Tyldak display this trope. Other couples do as well, due to major height disparities between different generations of elf. |
| 170 | * ''ComicBook/LesInnommables'', a French comic by Yann and Conrad, has Mac Buttle, a rather rotund adventurer deserted from the US military, and Alix, whose mother was executed by the Communists. Mac isn't that much taller than Alix, but he's at least four times as wide. |
| 171 | * Although Ragamuffin from ''ComicBook/LenoreTheCuteLittleDeadGirl'' is [[SealedEvilInACan trapped in a small doll]] for the most part of the comics, when he is turned into his old vampire self the [[OneHeadTaller difference in height]] between him and Lenore is really noticeable. While they're not a romantic couple, [[IntergenerationalFriendship their age difference is pretty disturbing]], too, Lenore being 10 years old (and [[UndeadChild dead for 100 years]]) and Ragamuffin between 20-30 years old (for 400 years). |
| 172 | * Creator/MarvelComics: |
| 173 | ** [[ComicBook/XMen Colossus (7'6") and Kitty Pryde (5'6")]] when they're romantically involved. |
| 174 | ** Well before these Johnny-come-latelies, the original dimorphic superhero couple: [[ComicBook/AntMan Ant/Giant-Man and the Wasp]], both are size-changers, so this mostly only comes into play when he grows and she shrinks. Applied to non-combat situations for awhile when Giant-Man got ''stuck'' at around 3.66 meters (12 feet) tall, and Wasp was still her usual 163 cm (5'4"). |
| 175 | ** [[ComicBook/FantasticFour The Thing (6'0") and Alicia Masters (5'4")]]; it doesn't help that Alicia is also blind. This was even joked about in ''Film/FantasticFourRiseOfTheSilverSurfer'' when Johnny (6') asks how Ben and Alicia manage a sex life. He then explains that he's only asking out of concern that Alicia might one day be killed in a "rock slide" and runs as Ben comes after him. |
| 176 | *** It's hinted, several times, that the Thing has no... ehm... external organs, because the rock skin is actually an exoskeleton of some sort. Obviously different authors said differently, but the Thing never got a "giant penis" joke, while other "big guys" (like the 8'0" Hulk), had. |
| 177 | *** Ironically, this was a serious plot device for the Thing in some early issues. He actually tried to resist his desire to become human again, fearing that Alicia would not love him if he was "plain old Ben" (seeing as she had not met him before he became the Thing). |
| 178 | ** ''ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}} (6'6")'' is a big guy period. How big [[DependingOnTheArtist can vary]]. In any case, he tends to look huge alongside any of his love interests. The most blatant case being Holly Bright, [[https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/silverfang2/29185537/1226783/1226783_900.jpg whom he towered over]]. |
| 179 | ** ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': The Hulk with basically any human-sized love interest. Even his AmazonianBeauty cousin ComicBook/SheHulk (6'7") is only chest height to him. Some artist's renditions of the Hulk are capable and actually have held love interests clasped between his hands. |
| 180 | *** Part of the problem with the Hulk is that his size is incredibly inconsistent, to the point where it'll vary between panels on the same page. His third wife, Caiera (7'0"), was a hot amazon with similar proportions to his cousin. Some panels had them standing next to each other with only a few inches difference in height, while others have him absolutely dwarfing her. The Hulk's official height is less than eight feet tall, however some panels will have him pushing fifteen feet for dramatic effect. |
| 181 | *** This is not so much artist variation as an effect of his powers, part of his ability to get stronger as he gets madder is an increase in size, up to a maximum of twelve feet. |
| 182 | *** The size-changing thing is a {{handwave}} that may or may not be used DependingOnTheWriter. Most writers have his size remain consistent, though the artwork usually won't reflect this for dramatic purposes. This is why the Hulk won't always just get bigger as he gets angrier, he'll vary in either direction from one panel to another (even if they show the same moment in time or are separated by a matter of seconds). |
| 183 | *** Originally, Bruce Banner became the Hulk by saving an irresponsible teenager (5'9") from being caught in an atomic bomb blast and that said teenager became [[HeterosexualLifePartners hulk's companion]], which would make it [[BigGuyLittleGuy another trope altogether]]. |
| 184 | *** [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Ultimate Hulk]] can be worse. Typically only around the 2.4 meter (7'10") mark, there's one storyline where he's somewhere in the neighborhood of six meters (19'8") tall and has a harem of dozens of normal-sized women. |
| 185 | ** The Kingpin is one of the largest, non-superhuman villains in the Marvel universe, while his wife, Vanessa Fisk, is a woman of normal height and weight. |
| 186 | ** In ''ComicBook/TheSagaOfCrystarCrystalWarrior'', the wizard Ogeode is of normal height, and his warrior woman wife Shen is a dwarf. |
| 187 | * ''ComicBook/TheMaxx'' has the semi-platonic versions, with the Maxx and Julie, the Maxx and Sarah, Sarah and [[spoiler: her Maxx]]. |
| 188 | * ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'' cranks this up to the extreme with Mortadelo's parents (as introduced in "Su vida privada"). Mortadelo's father is so tall the panels only portray him from the legs down a la ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'' (in the same panels we can see the full body of his son, whose billed height is 5'11"), while his mother is just a few inches tall and Filemón needs to look down to talk to her. |
| 189 | * The Italian underground comic book ''Ranxerox'' is an example: the titular Ranx is a huge robot (one can describe him as a punk Frankenstein's monster) that, because of a malfunction of his electronic brain, loves and follows little Lubna, who is a young, petite, and ''very'' nasty LittleMissBadass. |
| 190 | * In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', Chase (5'11") appears to be at least 30 cm (1 foot) taller than his girlfriend, Gert (5'1"). |
| 191 | * Barbaric and Ricochet in ''ComicBook/TheSavageDragon'' and ''Freak Force''; Barbaric is of a Hulk-like stature, while Ricochet is rather small for her age. |
| 192 | * Dwight and Miho from ''ComicBook/SinCity'' is a platonic example. Dwight clears six feet while Miho is often described as being barely 1.5 meters (5 feet) tall. As the series progressed, Creator/FrankMiller decided to exaggerate the differences to the point where Dwight looks as if he could swallow Miho. |
| 193 | * Another platonic example (and a very unusual one) is Tiatkin and the war droid Giza from the ''Franchise/{{Star Wars|Expanded Universe}}'' oneshot comic ''Lando's Commandos: On Eagle's Wings''. Giza was at least three times his Twi'lek partner's size and also had [[GentleGiant rather a lot of affection for her]]. Cue RoaringRampageOfRevenge when she was gunned down during a mission. |
| 194 | * ''ComicBook/StarWarsInvasion'': Kaye and Arbeloa, as a non-romantic example. In one issue, she asks him to relay issues to an army, only for him to tell her that ''she'' is their leader. She then points out that she wanted him to signal because he's the one tall enough to be seen over several rows of heads. |
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| 197 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 198 | * ''ComicStrip/InSecurity'' has [[OnlySaneMan Sam]] whose wife [[GenkiGirl Sed]][[CloudCuckooLander ine]] is shorter than him. |
| 199 | [[/folder]] |
| 200 | |
| 201 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 202 | * Like the ''Bionicle'' example above, this is not canon, but a lot of ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}'' fic-writers like pairing the ''enormous'' [[TheBigGuy 8]] with [[AmbiguousGender 4]], who is one of the smallest characters. (Most writers like to think of 4 as a female, thus making it an example of this trope and not BigGuyLittleGuy.) |
| 203 | * Marcus Romero and Amy Zavala, the District 2 tributes from ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10602409/1/The-92nd-Annual-Hunger-Games The 92nd Annual Hunger Games]]'' are totally this. Marcus is a 6'5", 200 lb. gargantuan 18-year-old, while his partner Amy is a 4'10", 90 lb. little 14-year-old. However, Amy proves to be far from harmless and can hold her own in the fight for survival alongside Marcus. |
| 204 | * In ''Fanfic/BeyondHeroes: Of Sunshine and Red Lyrium'', it's observed that [[VideoGame/DragonAgeII Bethany Hawke]] is considerably shorter and slighter than either of her tall, burly brothers. Cassandra is surprised when she meets Hawke and Carver and sees how much larger they are than she expected, because of the fact that Bethany is so petite.[[note]]Bethany is, canonically, one of the smallest adult humans in the ''Dragon Age'' franchise.[[/note]] |
| 205 | * Though not canon in any sense, ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' fans tend to pair up Toa Hewkii and Macku. Macku is a three-foot-tall fisherwoman, Hewkii is a seven-foot-six superhero with stone and gravity powers. |
| 206 | ** A more canon example would be Mata Nui and Kiina. Sure, at seven-and-a-half feet tall, Kiina is hardly "tiny" by most people's standards, but when you consider that Mata Nui's original form is [[spoiler:forty million feet tall]], it becomes a highly exaggerated version of this trope. |
| 207 | * Wheatley's human body in ''Fanfic/BlueSkyWaffles'' is based on actor Stephen Merchant, who is 6'7". Chell is described as being "not particularly tall". |
| 208 | * Several examples in ''Fanfic/TheBridgeMLP'', mostly due to the kaiju ponies being well above average size. Most notably, Anguirus finds [[CuteMute Gentle Leaf]], a little filly lost in the woods, and takes care of her; resulting in they traveling together with her riding on his back a lot. Within some bonding time Anguirus takes on a ParentalSubstitute for the little one until he can get her back to her parents, and Gentle Leaf being in danger is what causes his BigBrotherInstinct to flare up. |
| 209 | * Bree and Min of the ''VideoGame/TombRaider2013'' fanfic ''[[Fanfic/TheCameraLovesYou The Dreaming]]'' form a variation on this trope. Though both are female, Min is very tall and androgynous, while Bree is much shorter and girlier. |
| 210 | * In ''Fanfic/TheDragonThatWillPierceTheHeavens'', Zoro and protagonist Hikari fit this trope, since Zoro is closer to six feet tall and Hikari to five feet. [[ActionGirl This doesn't]] [[DraconicHumanoid mean she]] [[PintSizedPowerHouse isn't]] [[BattleCouple equally dangerous]]. |
| 211 | * ''Very'' popular on the ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' KinkMeme. Plenty of fills involve a female Breton PlayerCharacter (the smallest possible human) getting paired up with a strapping male Nord ([[LoveableRogue Brynjolf]], [[GentleGiant Farkas]], and [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Vilkas]] are popular) or Altmer (especially Ondolemar or Legate Fasendil). Another such pairing that turns up frequently is [[FoeYayShipping Mirabelle Ervine and Ancano]]. |
| 212 | * ''Fanfic/EnemyOfMyEnemy'' has Sarah Jennings - a young, human girl - form a strong bond of friendship with two Seperatist Hunters whom she dubs 'Jib' and 'Jubb'. |
| 213 | * In the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' fandom, the "[[PortmanteauCoupleName Jaylee]]" pairing, considering that Creator/JewelStaite, Kaylee's actress, stands at just 166 cm½ (5'5");" compared to the towering 193 cm (6'4") Creator/AdamBaldwin, who plays Jayne. Those who ship [[FoeYayShipping Jayne and River]] also like to play up the dynamic in their fic, despite Creator/SummerGlau being an average-sized 173 cm (5'8"). |
| 214 | * ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' fic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4777932/1/Firefly Firefly]]'' has the non-romantic pair of [[LargeAndinCharge Bowser]], an über-tall heavyweight racer, and [[BadassAdorable Toadette]], whose growth was [[LittleMissBadass stunted]] artificially to minimize her weight. [[MovieSuperheroesWearBlack Their]] [[HellBentforLeather tastes]] in [[SpikesofVillainy fashion]] [[PimpedOutDress further]] [[PrincessesPreferPink heighten]] [[ParasolofPrettiness the]] [[ElegantGothicLolita difference.]] |
| 215 | * In ''Fanfic/FrailEquilibrium'' and the fan-verse following it, Tess' allegedly short stature (peaking at an average 5'4" as an adult) compared to a towering 6'5" Dante is a long-time running gag. |
| 216 | * ''Fanfic/AGreenDragonsHoard'': This is a given considering Izuku is roughly five and a half meters tall. Even Yamato, who's three and a half meters tall, barely reaches his waist. Though it's especially profound with Izuku's first girlfriend Manami who, at 111cm tall, is almost exactly one fifth his height. |
| 217 | * In the ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' fandom, one particular FanPreferredCouple is Flippy (a bear) and Flaky (a porcupine). While the two (like most of the characters) are the same size on the show, some fans like to de-anthropomorphize the characters. [[http://renyarra13.deviantart.com/art/And-so-106637876 D'aww ensues]]. |
| 218 | ** There are thousands of pictures with them in human, anime forms, in which Flippy is drawn at least OneHeadTaller than Flaky. [[http://www.zerochan.net/336206 Some]] [[http://www.zerochan.net/382338 examples]] [[http://www.zerochan.net/392874 are]] [[http://www.zerochan.net/325533 here.]] |
| 219 | * Shown a bit in [[https://www.deviantart.com/discordantprincess DiscordantPrincess']] ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'' works with Alastor and his [[OriginalCharacter wife Megan]]. While Megan is not overly short (her height was once stated as 5'9"), she's a good foot shorter than Alastor. |
| 220 | * ''Fanfic/TheHeartTrilogy'' pairs an [[https://www.deviantart.com/adonovan94/art/Smaug-and-Kathryn-concept-art-435112816 average-sized woman named Kathryn with the massive dragon Smaug]]. Eventually [[HumanityEnsues Smaug gains]] a muscled and seven feet tall human form that also dwarfs Kathryn. |
| 221 | * ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7137086/1/Hit_and_Miss Hit And Miss]]'', a NSFW [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII Balthier (6'0")/Ashe (5'5")]] fanfic, brings up the difference in the two characters' heights frequently. When it's mentioned in Chapter 20, [[spoiler: Balthier sleeps with someone else and can't stop himself from thinking that, compared to Ashe, she's too tall.]] |
| 222 | * ''Fanfic/{{Hivefled}}'': the Grand Highblood's lover, the Condesce, is about half his size, and they've had threesomes with [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction trolls who are even smaller than her]]. |
| 223 | * In ''Fanfic/IAmNOTGoingThroughPubertyAgain'', Itachi (5'7'') ends up with Karenbana (short enough to be mistaken for a child). |
| 224 | * [[https://www.fanfiction.net/community/Cornelius-Anderson/116268/ This series of]] ''Film/JudgeDredd'' movie-verse fanfics features Judge Anderson (specifically stated to be 5'4" like the actress who plays her) [[WillTheyOrWontThey totally-not-paired-with]] Judge Cornelius (described as "six-foot-four of Baltimore beefcake" and explicitly taller than ''Dredd himself''. Although not played for laughs, there are several instances where the height difference is obvious - once when he puts his elbow on her shoulder for support after [[spoiler:getting stabbed.]] |
| 225 | * [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1415139/pudgypudge PudgyPudge]]'s work ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3906989/1/Master-of-the-Zanbatous Master of the Zanbatous]]''. By the time the story ends, [[spoiler: Sakura]] is able to ride atop Naruto's shoulders in a fashion reminiscent of [[http://b9tribeca.deviantart.com/art/KENPACHI-AND-YACHIRU-156536568 Kenpachi and Yachiru]] It IS stated that in order to wield the blades effectively, he had to undergo a MASSIVE growth spurt, but 4'6" to 6'11" seems a tiny bit excessive. |
| 226 | * ''Fanfic/MiraculousThePhoenixRises'' gives us Max and Morgan. Max is a fairly tall individual, while [[TheHero Morgan]] herself is absolutely ''tiny'' compared to most other characters in the series. |
| 227 | * The ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' SeriesFic ''Fanfic/NewIslandLife'' has two as the {{Official Couple}}s of three of the four stories: Hajime Hinata and Hiyoko Saojin in ''New island Life'' and Shuichi Saihara and Himiko Yumeno in ''New School semester''. |
| 228 | * ''Fanfic/OldWest'' has Rattlesnake Jake (a staggering-sized rattlesnake) and Grace Glossy (a shorter and a lot slimmer glossy snake). The pictures provided by the author ([[ImageLinks/OldWest links provided here]]) help to outline the comparison. |
| 229 | * Some examples in ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'': |
| 230 | ** In the Ritchie Gaiden, the title character is stated by the narration to be taller than his mother at age 15. She later marries a man who is big enough to call her son "half-pint". |
| 231 | ** In the Hiker Interlude, the titular Hiker meets a young girl named Mizu, no older than nine years old. |
| 232 | * ''Fanfic/RemiTheGrey'' has Jedi Knight Remi, who is described (and shown in artwork by the author) as quite petite, paired up with [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys Lord Scourge]] who is canonically the tallest and most muscular body type available for males in the game. |
| 233 | * ''Fanfic/TheSecretReturnOfAlexMack'': Little 5'2" Buffy is dating 6'4" NFL quarterback Freddie. [[spoiler: Since she's a Breslynn Orphan, however, she's strong enough to lift him over her head.]] |
| 234 | * ''Fanfic/TheServantsOfUngoliant'' features [[spoiler: the 25-year-old Jhebdryk, who is the tallest and most muscular of the main Darklanders]] and [[spoiler: the 18-year-old Rhejya, who is one of the youngest of the main Darklanders]]. Also doubled with OneHeadTaller. |
| 235 | * [[TheBigGuy Obsidian]] and [[ShrinkingViolet Vale]] in ''Fanfic/SomeSemblanceOfMeaning''. Obsidian is a Career, described as tall and muscular, whereas Vale describes herself as scrawny and "vertically challenged." |
| 236 | * Leif of ''Fanfic/SoullessShellRedwall'' isn't described as being particularly big, but his girlfriend Maoimi can't reach above his waist ([[OlderThanTheyLook she's supposed to be seventeen]]). |
| 237 | * Any fanfic shipping ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'''s Sam Winchester (6'5" and muscular) and Gabriel (5'8" and compact). (Since Gabriel's an [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angel,]] though, it's actually inverted once they're out of their meatsuits--Sam's soul can fit in a briefcase, while a younger and less powerful angel than Gabriel is the size of the Chrysler building, so Gabriel's probably even larger.) |
| 238 | * Fan-artists for ''Fanfic/SuzumiyaHaruhiNoSeitenkan'' tend to draw Kyonko (5'2") as really short compared to the male characters, such as [[http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/8626/29670166d193b5da5348eaf.jpg Haruki (5'7")]] or [[http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/1746/1222842142612.jpg Yuuki (5'5.5")]]. |
| 239 | * ''Fanfic/ToyHammer'': [[spoiler: Michael and Zara]]. 1.8 meters (5'11") to 5 cm (2 inches). |
| 240 | * Fans like to pair Arcee with Bulkhead from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime''. Arcee is shorter than [[KidAppealCharacter Bumblebee]] and Bulkhead comes up to Optimus's chest [[spoiler: pre-upgrade]]. |
| 241 | * In the ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8213106/1/Uplifted Uplifted series]]'' Joachim Hoch is described as just under 6'5" and built like a grizzly bear. Hanala on the other hand is lucky to be 5'1". Of course, size means nothing but a height difference as Hanala is the brutally violent one. |
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| 243 | |
| 244 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 245 | * ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''. Even after the transformation, there's still quite a size difference. [[JerkAss Gaston]] is also considerably bigger than Belle. In the stage musical, Belle is usually cast as short as possible to play up this aspect. |
| 246 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'': |
| 247 | ** Short and squat Maudie and the nameless, towering {{Hunk}} from Clan Dingwall appear to be heading this way, as evidenced by his behavior toward her the end of the film. |
| 248 | ** King Fergus and Queen Elinor. They're fairly similar in height - indeed, Elinor is quite tall - but Fergus is about five times wider. |
| 249 | * Exaggerated in ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'': Max is a TinyHeadedBehemoth, while [[ShirleyTemplate Darla Dimple]] is a BrattyHalfPint. |
| 250 | * Gru and his daughters in ''Franchise/DespicableMe'', but specially Agnes, who is barely bigger than his head. His eventual partner Lucy Wilde counts, as she's waifish compared to Gru's bulky frame and only manages to stand taller than Gru with [[CombatStilettos huge heels]] (and his hunch helps, as seen when [[https://besthqwallpapers.com/Uploads/28-6-2017/16137/thumb2-minions-grew-lucy-wilde-dru-gru-despicable-me-3.jpg his normal-postured brother enters the fray]]). |
| 251 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' gave us a platonic example overlapping with BrainsAndBrawn, in the form of the [[LeanAndMean gaunt]] [[EvilOldFolks old]] EvilChancellor Yzma and her hulking MinionWithAnFInEvil Kronk. |
| 252 | * ''Film/ErnestAndCelestine'' are a perfect example of this trope with Ernest being a gigantic bear, and Celestine being a tiny little mouse who fits in his paw. |
| 253 | * Kristoff, from ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', bears a partial resemblance to the scrapped Bastion, being taller and stockier than the average Disney leading male. However, he's still more conventionally attractive and is only OneHeadTaller than Anna, rather than towering over her. |
| 254 | * Chiaki and Makoto in ''Anime/TheGirlWhoLeaptThroughTime'' -she barely goes up to his shoulders. |
| 255 | * ''Franchise/HowToTrainYourDragon'': |
| 256 | ** ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2'' has this trope played straight with [[LargeAndInCharge Stoick]] and [[spoiler:his long-lost wife Valka]], who is roughly a third his size. Rather downplayed in that she is less than a head shorter [[StatuesqueStunner which means she looms more than a bit]] in her own right. |
| 257 | ** In the spin-off film ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTheBoneknapperDragon'', Gobber's parents were depicted this way in his flashback. |
| 258 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'': |
| 259 | ** Platonic example with the title heroine and Maui. Moana is an average-sized teenage girl, while Maui is considerably taller and about 2-3 times her width. |
| 260 | ** There's also a romantic example with Moana's parents. Tui is slightly over a head taller than Sina, as well as about twice her width. |
| 261 | * Francoeur of ''WesternAnimation/AMonsterInParis'' is a seven-foot, anthropomorphic flea, so he's taller than most people, but his dance partner/[[LikeBrotherAndSister sister figure]] Lucille is pretty small compared to the more normal-sized cast members. |
| 262 | * A non-romantic example. ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc1'' has Sulley (a furry monster with the build of a lineman) grows attached to a two-year-old girl whom he names "Boo." Also, it's worth noting that his assistant (and all the assistants of the 'scarers' at their workplace) are dwarfed by their counterparts, with Mike being about the size of Sulley's head. |
| 263 | * In ''WesternAnimation/MulanII'', [[GentleGiant Chien-Po]], the guy big enough to pick up four people and a horse, ends up with the tiniest of the princesses. |
| 264 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyMoon'': Earth is about the size of a small building, while Sun is dozens and dozens of times larger than her. He can even fit her in the palm of his hand and still have plenty of room left over. |
| 265 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Pixies}}'': Joe Beck's spine is double the length of Michelle Meyers', he towers multiple heads over her. |
| 266 | * Flynn and Rapunzel from ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' avert this. However, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen an earlier version]] of the script played it straight. Bastion was Rapunzel's love interest before Flynn but was scrapped for a more conventionally handsome protagonist. Bastion was a very large guy while Rapunzel is somewhat short. Rapunzel didn't even reach Bastion's shoulders. |
| 267 | * The director's commentary in ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'' suggests that Shrek and Fiona were specifically designed for this image. The situation then becomes merely OneHeadTaller. This is why we also have tiny little Donkey [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction paired up with the massive Dragon]]. |
| 268 | * Kerchack and Kala from ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}''. This one's justified since male gorillas really are much bigger than the females. |
| 269 | * ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' has the title character Ralph (normally a GentleGiant) befriending tiny BrattyHalfPint Vanellope Von Schweetz. Seen in the page image. |
| 270 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' there's Mayor Lionheart and Assistant Mayor Bellwether. He's an enormous male lion, while she's a dwarf female sheep that barely comes up to his waist. |
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| 274 | * Creator/ClintEastwood, who was also 6'4" in his prime, and was exactly a foot taller than his most frequent leading lady (and sometimes real-life romantic partner) Sondra Locke. |
| 275 | * ''Film/BabylonAD'': Toorop and Aurora. Not only is he OneHeadTaller, but probably twice her weight as well. Of course, he's a muscular veteran mercenary, and she's a sheltered young woman. It doesn't go beyond UnresolvedSexualTension, however. |
| 276 | * James Merten, the namesake architect who built the Mertin-Flemmer Building in ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich'' was allegedly a sea captain married to a dwarf woman and built the 7 1/2 floor for her and her "accursed kind" (Maxine doesn't believe it). |
| 277 | * Taken to an extreme in ''Film/BigTopPeeWee'', with circus owner Kris Kristofferson (5'10) and his wife, who is small enough to live in his shirt pocket. |
| 278 | * In ''Film/BlackCatWhiteCat'', six-foot-plus Grga Veliki and midget Afrodita end up together after Grga finds her in a stump. ItMakesSenseInContext. |
| 279 | * Non-romantic example: GentleGiant One and [[WiseBeyondTheirYears Wise Beyond Her Years]] Miette from the French Film ''Film/TheCityOfLostChildren''. |
| 280 | * ''Film/FourChristmases'' cast Creator/ReeseWitherspoon (5' 1"/1.55 m) opposite Creator/VinceVaughn (6'5"/1.95 m). The film's poster featured them standing [[BackToBackPoster back-to-back]], with her standing on a stack of four wrapped presents. |
| 281 | * ''Film/{{Freaky}}'' centers around an average schoolgirl (5' 5"1,65 m Creator/KathrynNewton) and a [[EvilIsBigger enormous serial killer]] (6' 5¼" 1,96 m Creator/VinceVaughn) [[FreakyFridayFlip going through a body swap]]. Them having to [[MutualDisadvantage adjust to the new bodies]] leads to some comedy, as the killer who took down people with ease now lacks his old strength (one of the murders has the would-be victim throwing the petite girl easily), and the girl hits her head on tall branches ("I'm a giant!"). |
| 282 | * Ambrose and Ermengarde in the film ''Film/HelloDolly'', played by 6'7 Tommy Tune and the 4'10 Joyce Ames. At one point they're dancing and he lifts her off her feet to disguise her short height (making her less notable to her uncle sitting nearby). |
| 283 | * ''Film/KingKong1933'': |
| 284 | ** Played with, in fact, by Merian C. Cooper (5'8). According to Fay Wray (5'3), when she was given the part of Ann Darrow, Cooper told her that she'd be working with "the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood" (she was expecting 6'1 Creator/ClarkGable). |
| 285 | ** Bruce Cabot (6'1.5), who played her human love interest, was also nearly a foot taller than her. |
| 286 | * ''Film/{{May}}'' has this with the eponymous character and her [[spoiler: ill fated]] LoveInterest Adam. [[CuteAndPsycho May]] being played by the dainty, 5'3" Creator/AngelaBettis and Adam being played by the [[MrFanservice impressively built]], 6'1.5" Jeremy Sisto. There's even a moment in the film where he has to ''crouch down'' to meet her eye level. Its worth mentioning though that [[spoiler: [[WomanScorned May]] still manages to ''kill'' Adam]]! |
| 287 | * The title characters of ''Film/MinAndMax'', who are a short woman and a tall man. Actually, those names in the title are nicknames; their real names are Xia Xiling and Zhang Xiao, respectively. Anyway, this trope is subverted here in that Xia Xiling keeps on rejecting Zhang Xiao's attempts to win her over. [[spoiler:Double subverted when she ends up developing feelings for him anyway.]] |
| 288 | * In ''Film/{{Mirrormask}}'', Valentine isn't "huge", but he is far enough on the tall side to contrast with petite Helena. |
| 289 | * Jaws (7'2) and his girlfriend, Dolly, in ''Film/{{Moonraker}}''. There was some concern about audiences accepting the height difference until Creator/RichardKiel pointed out his ''real-life wife'' was the same height. |
| 290 | * Trini in ''Film/PowerRangers2017'' is played by 5' actress and Latin-pop Singer Becky Gomez, who in some shots, barely comes up to some of her castmates' shoulders (mainly RJ Cyler who is a foot taller than her). |
| 291 | * ''Film/QuigleyDownUnder'' has 6'4" Tom Selleck paired with Laura San Giacomo, who's only 5'2". |
| 292 | * The massive, 6'4" Creator/JohnWayne was this next to most of his female co-stars. A particularly striking example was Angie Dickinson from ''Film/RioBravo,'' who was slender, petite, and stood nearly a foot shorter than Wayne. |
| 293 | * ''Film/ShallWeDance2004'': BigFun Vern only has a few scenes with his fiancée, but she is nearly two heads shorter than him, even in high heels, and at least fifty pounds lighter than him. |
| 294 | * ''Franchise/StarWars'': |
| 295 | ** Han Solo and Princess Leia borderline it. Harrison Ford, Han’s actor, stands 6’1 and Carrie Fisher was a foot shorter at 5’1. |
| 296 | ** ''Film/TheForceAwakens'': Maz Kanata (4'1) offhandedly refers to Chewbacca (7'7), who's at least a meter (3 feet) taller than her, as her 'boyfriend'. |
| 297 | * In ''Film/SullivansTravels'' we have 6'2" Creator/JoelMcCrea paired with 4'11" Creator/VeronicaLake. |
| 298 | * In ''Film/TarzanTheApeMan1932'' and its sequels, Johnny Weissmuller (6'3) was a full foot taller and considerably more massive than Maureen O'Sullivan. |
| 299 | * ''Film/{{Thor}}'' and ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' have the waifish Creator/NataliePortman (5'3) paired with the towering and chiseled Creator/ChrisHemsworth (6'2.75). In ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', Portman's character getting Thor's powers also makes her taller through [[ScullyBox extensive set trickery]]. |
| 300 | * ''Film/ThorRagnarok'': |
| 301 | ** Valkyrie and the Hulk have struck up a friendship since he arrived on Sakaar at the end of ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''. Creator/TessaThompson (Valkyrie) is 5'3¾ while the Hulk is at least twice that height. They've even given each other nicknames that resemble the trope name. |
| 302 | ** Non-romantic example with Valkyrie and Thor, given the ten inch height difference between Thompson and Hemsworth. |
| 303 | * [[SpacePirates Divatox]] tried to marry [[EvilerThanThou Maligore]] out of convenience in ''Film/TurboAPowerRangersMovie''. Maligore can grow even [[MakeMyMonsterGrow bigger.]] Unfortunately (for Divatox), this marriage would most likely lead to EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt and so was naturally spoilt by the Turbo Rangers. |
| 304 | * In ''Film/TheWanderers'', the leader of The Fordham Baldies, Terror, is played by the 6'6" and well over 300 lbs Erland van Lindh, while his girl Peewee is played by the 4'10" Linda Manz. |
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| 308 | !!!'''By Author:''' |
| 309 | * In any Creator/PGWodehouse story where Stinker Pinker and Stiffy Bing make an appearance, [[Literature/JeevesAndWooster Bertie]] will introduce them in the narration by remarking how they embody this trope. |
| 310 | |
| 311 | !!!'''By Title:''' |
| 312 | * In the ''Literature/AhrimanTrilogy'' Fausto is a giant football player and Zoe is repeatedly described as being tiny. She's a total badass though, so it balances. |
| 313 | * Egyptologists and detectives Literature/AmeliaPeabody and Radcliffe Emerson. Amelia frequently describes her husband as "Herculean". |
| 314 | * ''Literature/TheBelgariad'' and ''Literature/TheMalloreon'' series: |
| 315 | ** Garion is at least six and a half feet (about 2 m) tall, possibly seven feet (about 2.1 m). His wife Ce'Nedra, being part-Dryad, is 5' (152 cm) at most -- and repeatedly described as tiny. |
| 316 | * In ''Literature/BlackHouse'', the biker named Mouse tells of his late girlfriend, Little Nancy. Jack asks how big Little Nancy was since Mouse is 6'2'' and 290 pounds. Mouse remarks that he could have lifted her one-handed. |
| 317 | * Brandon Vanderkool (6'8") and Madeline Rousseau (5'-ish) in ''Border Songs''. |
| 318 | * The [[TerribleTrio Robo-Boogers]] from ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' start out as a BigThinShortTrio. [[spoiler: However, when Carl (thin) dies, Frankenbooger (big) and Trixie (short) become a straight example.]] Even none of there genders are explicitly stated, Carl and Frankenbooger are implied to be male and Trixie is implied to be female. |
| 319 | * ''Literature/TheCatWhoSeries'': Liz Hart and her boyfriend Derek Cuttlebrink are described this way. However, Liz is a woman of ordinary proportions and only appears tiny next to Derek, who is literally seven feet tall. |
| 320 | * In ''Literature/TheCrocodileGod'', Mirasol is the tiny Filipino-American girl to Haik, the title's Filipino crocodile-god. His exact height isn't mentioned, but he's at least a head above her, extremely muscular thanks to [[WoodenShipsAndIronMen being a sea-god who sails for a living]], and descended [[WildSamoan from the Maori]]. |
| 321 | * Played for BodyHorror rather than humor in Ramsey Campbell's Franchise/CthulhuMythos story "The Faces at Pine Dunes", in which Michael's tall father has grown enormously fat and his mother is petite. |
| 322 | * Derek and Chloe from the ''Literature/DarkestPowers'' series. Derek is built like a linebacker, with shoulders nearly as broad as the average doorway, and stands at around 6'3" or so. He also weighs about 220lbs. Chloe is five-foot-nothing and probably weighs 100lbs soaking wet. |
| 323 | * Red and Sorcha from Creator/JulietMarillier's ''Literature/DaughterOfTheForest'' Sorcha is very petite and compared to Red who's a pretty big guy, she's like a small child. |
| 324 | * During ''{{Literature/Dinoverse}}'', eighth graders become dinosaurs. [[AlphaBitch Candacye Chambers]] becomes a pig-sized Leptoceratops, while the two boys she's with become an Ankylosaurus and a UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex, respectively. YourSizeMayVary, but she does climb on top of Bertram's shell and leaps into Mike's tiny arms at various points. Candayce is also considerably smaller than [[TerrorDactyl Janine]]. Once they all return home, she's back to being a tall, leggy girl. |
| 325 | * Captain Carrot and Angua von Uberwald of ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''. Angua has never been described as particularly small, granted, but it probably wouldn't matter, seeing as Carrot is 6'5" (196cm) and nearly as broad across the shoulder. Sometimes Angua only comes up to his waist ... although admittedly that's when she's [[OurWereWolvesAreDifferent quadrapedal]]. |
| 326 | * ''Literature/DragonBones'' has GentleGiant Ward, and his younger sister Ciarra, who is so small she looks more like twelve than her actual age of sixteen. They usually greet each other by her jumping onto him to hug him, and his picking her up and whirling her around. |
| 327 | * F'lar and Lessa in ''Literature/DragonridersOfPern'' -- Lessa has been referred to as "diminutive", "child-sized", etc. Nevertheless, she is a force of nature, personality-wise. |
| 328 | * ''Literature/DragonsInOurMidst'' has a non-romantic example: Sapphira (a fairly smallish woman) and Yereq (a giant, some nine-plus feet tall), from ''Oracles of Fire''. |
| 329 | * ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles''. |
| 330 | ** Non-romantic ([[WillTheyOrWontThey at first, anyway]]) example: Harry Dresden and Karrin Murphy. (He's canonically 6'9"; she's five feet tall.) |
| 331 | ** Harry with his other girlfriends, Susan and [[spoiler:Anastasia Luccio]] also qualify as neither lady is described as being over 6 feet tall. |
| 332 | ** Another non-romantic example from the same series: Kincaid and the Archive. The latter is a young girl with the sum of all human knowledge and the former is her bodyguard (who's almost as tall as Harry), leaving them with a weird 'father'/super-intelligent daughter relationship. |
| 333 | ** Kincaid and Murphy have a FriendsWithBenefits situation going for a while as well. |
| 334 | ** Thomas and Justine. Thomas has been mentioned as tall (though not nearly as tall as Harry), and Justine has been described as tiny, frail, and waif-ish. |
| 335 | ** Queens Mab and Titania, rulers of Winter and Summer respectively, are described as appearing close to 6 feet in most forms (they can change their shape to a certain degree). Their peers in Faerie are Santa Claus and Literature/TheErlKing, both described as well over 7 feet tall. |
| 336 | * ''Literature/EleanorAndPark'': |
| 337 | ** Steve is huge, while his girlfriend Tina barely breaks five feet. |
| 338 | ** Park's father is much larger than his mother. At one point, they are compared to Paul Bunyan and an It's a Small World doll respectively. |
| 339 | * ''Literature/TheElenium'' has Sir Sparhawk, repeatedly described as an uncommonly tall and burly bruiser of a man, and his eventual wife [[spoiler:Queen Ehlana]]. |
| 340 | * ''Literature/EmpireFromTheAshes'': ''Heirs of Empire'' has PintSizedPowerhouse Sandy [=MacMahan=], who tops out at a mere 140 cm (4'7), and Sean [=MacIntyre=], who is 60 cm (2 feet) taller. |
| 341 | * ''Literature/GarrettPI'': |
| 342 | ** Waldo "Saucerhead" Tharpe is a humungous bodyguard/bruiser with a long track record of dating women who can barely reach his elbows. |
| 343 | ** Garrett himself is no shrimp, yet is usually paired with Tinnie Tate, whose whole family is short. |
| 344 | * ''Literature/GentlemanBastard'': Jean, who is larger than average, and Ezri, who is petite (but the tallest of all her sisters) in ''Red Seas Under Red Skies''. |
| 345 | * Susan and the unnamed protagonist of Creator/NeilGaiman's short story "Goliath". |
| 346 | * In Creator/MaryGentle's ''Literature/{{Grunts}}'' we have the pairing of Ashnak (six feet of muscular orc) and [[{{Dominatrix}} Magda Brandiman]], a halfling (probably around 3' to 4' at the most). |
| 347 | * Vernon and Petunia Dursley in the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' books, though the difference is in girth as opposed to height. |
| 348 | ** Possible example: of the three leads, Ron is the tallest and Hermione is the shortest, though it's unclear how much the height disparity is, and considering the books take place over their teenage years it certainly varies as well. |
| 349 | ** Dean Thomas (confirmed to be taller than Ron) briefly dates petite Ginny Weasley during ''Half-Blood Prince''. |
| 350 | * From Creator/MercedesLackey's ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'', Talia, who is described as petite, and Dirk, who's been referred to as "that man-mountain of hers". Also a case of UglyGuyHotWife. |
| 351 | * ''Literature/HonorHarrington'': |
| 352 | ** The titular character's father is 192 cm (6'3" and a half), and her mother is third-grader size at "barely over" 125 cm (4'1" and a half). |
| 353 | ** Kevin Usher is described as being rather large, quite unlike his rather petite wife Virginia. |
| 354 | ** Abigail Hearns, while tall for a Grayson, is still average height at most. Her armsman, [[HeavyWorlder San Martin-born]] Mateo Gutierrez, is two meters (6'7) tall and weighs 200 kilograms. |
| 355 | ** Lady Dame Estelle Matsuko, Baroness Medusa, Imperial Governor of the Talbott Quadrant, barely clears five feet (158 cm) and is delicately built. Her military counterpart, station commander Admiral Augustus Khumalo, is not only easily over six feet, but described with words like "massive". |
| 356 | ** Berry Zilwicki is smaller than average (in part due to malnutrition as a child) while her boyfriend Hugh Arai is positively enormous, being former Mesan heavy labor slave. |
| 357 | * Kyle and [[spoiler: Jodi/Sunny]] from ''Literature/TheHost2008''. This also is the fate of [[spoiler: Ian and Wanda in Pet's body.]] |
| 358 | ** [[spoiler: Also invoked in the movie as while Jake Abel who plays Ian isn't massively tall at 6'1, he still ends up towering over Wanda, played by the 5'2 Emily Browning.]] |
| 359 | * ''Literature/HumanxCommonwealth'': Skua September and Isili Hasboga from ''The End of the Matter''. Skua is described by many characters as the biggest man they've ever seen, while his employer Isili's description pegs her as half a head shorter than teenage Flinx (who'd not yet grown tall). |
| 360 | * ''Literature/IronWidow'' has Zetian and Shimin, whose heights per WordOfGod are 5'2" and 6'5" respectively. Despite this, Zetian is, in many ways, [[MoreDeadlyThanTheMale more dangerous than Shimin]]. |
| 361 | * ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': ''Literature/AMagesPower'': Laharg the orc is taller and broader than any human. His mercenary partner, Malize, is a fairy and so she's small enough to ride on his head. |
| 362 | * Owen and Annabel from Creator/SarahDessen's novel ''Literature/JustListen''. This is picked up on in-universe, and their schoolmates start giving them unkind nicknames like [[BeastAndBeauty Beauty and the Beast]]. |
| 363 | * In Dorothy Dunnett's ''King Hereafter'', 6'6 (and [[UglyGuyHotWife massively ugly]]) Thorfinn, aka Theatre/{{Macbeth}}, is married to Gruoch, who is small and short enough for him to pick up and carry. This is based on a historical account of Thorfinn carrying her to safety when their home was attacked by enemies. |
| 364 | * In ''Literature/LornaDoone'', John Ridd is described as being able to carry away the doorframe of Sir Ensor Doone's house. For reference, the doorway is 6 feet and one inch high and nearly two feet across. Lorna, on the other hand, is slim, such that half of John's arm can go around her. |
| 365 | * To some extent, George and Jessie Challenger from Conan Doyle's ''Literature/{{The Lost World|1912}}''. Notably, Challenger is ''short'' (well, at least when compared to Edward Malone), but only because he has short, stocky legs. His chest, arms, and head are huge, and his wife is a tiny, thin woman whom he is able to lift absolutely without any effort. To [[TheProtagonist Malone]], they together resemble a gorilla and a gazelle. |
| 366 | * Karsa Orlong and Samar Dev from Creator/StevenErikson's ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen''. Karsa Orlong is a BloodKnight and a {{deconstruction}} of the BarbarianHero from a race known as the [[OurGiantsAreBigger Teblor]], while Samar Dev is a slim and short human HotWitch and engineer. Karsa having little social graces and bordering on a HeManWomanHater who learns his lesson would bring his courtship of Samar into humorous territory if it wasn't a deliberate {{deconstruction}} of BiggerIsBetterInBed. Karsa is acutely aware of ''that'', but somehow, between books, they manage to become a couple. |
| 367 | * Brother/Sister version in ''Literature/TheMillenniumTrilogy'' books, with the Zalachenko half-siblings. Super-hacker Lisbeth is less than five feet tall and skinny even for her size. Her half-brother is a towering, ridiculously muscled bruiser. |
| 368 | * ''Literature/NinaTanleven'': ''The Ghost Wore Gray'' includes the elderly couple Arnie and Meg Coleman. Arnie is six-foot-five, and Meg is about Nine's height (four-foot-ten). |
| 369 | * Not a romance, but the partnership of Tuskanini and Super Gnat in the ''Literature/PhulesCompany'' novels. He's the biggest member of the Omega Mob, she's the smallest, and they are a ''solid'' team, to the point that very pacifistic Tusk slugs a sergeant for picking on his partner. |
| 370 | * Ken Follet's ''Literature/ThePillarsOfTheEarth'': Tom Builder is described to be unusually tall and muscular, and [[spoiler:his second wife Ellen]] is described to be leaner and smaller. |
| 371 | * A ''Post-Modern Fairy Tale'' book features a very butch princess (she likes wrestling and fixing helicopters) whose parents force her to preside over an engagement gauntlet of princes who must be [[UnfortunateImplications taller, stronger, and maybe even smarter]] then her in order to marry her. They are especially interested in the only guy who's taller than the princess; unfortunately, he's also a [[NoodlePeople Noodle Person]] who has to wrestle her (she lets him win to avoid injuring him). Meanwhile, she falls for the same prince's pilot/chauffeur, who's much shorter and chubbier but very much her equal. [[spoiler:Naturally, ''he's'' the real prince and the tall guy is his pilot/chauffeur. They switched because the prince knew his height would've instantly eliminated him, and he thought the whole thing was silly anyway]]. |
| 372 | * In ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'', Darcy is described several times as tall and once as a "great, tall fellow" by Bingley, while Elizabeth is supposedly lithe from her walking and 15-year-old Lydia and Georgianna are both taller than her. |
| 373 | * ''Literature/TheRogueKing'' has almost nine-foot Koral hook up with a girl whose eyes are 'level with his belt'. But then, most people are that short to him. |
| 374 | * In ''Literature/ShadesChildren'' by Garth Nix, Ella isn't described as being particularly small, but she certainly would seem so next to her teammate Drum, who was dosed with steroids as a child. One scene implied that her armpits were about level with his waist. Interestingly, Ella is almost certainly the elder. |
| 375 | * In ''Literature/TheSharingKnife'' series: Fawn "I'm not a child, I'm just short" Bluefield and Dag Redwing, who's so tall and lanky that Fawn can't reach up to touch his face unless he stoops. |
| 376 | * ''Literature/SienkiewiczTrilogy'': The GentleGiant of ''With Fire and Sword'', Podbipięta, falls head over heels with tiny [[TheCutie Anusia]]. |
| 377 | * Possibly Nessa and Tulkas in Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' — she's described as petite and graceful, like a deer, and he's massive and muscular. |
| 378 | * The title characters in the Julia Donaldson and Axel Schiffer picture book ''The Snail and the Whale''. The female snail is about the size of the male whale's eye. |
| 379 | * ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': |
| 380 | ** Daenerys Targaryen and Khal Drogo have an arranged marriage. He's a hardened tribal leader who towers over most men, while she's thirteen years old and slight even for her age. |
| 381 | ** They may never appear and are only mentioned once, but the eight-foot-tall Gregor Clegane has been married three times. Other examples include Duncan the Tall (6' 11") and Young Nan (Average height and very thin), Sandor Clegane (6' 7") and Sansa Stark (Around 5'). There is also a mention of a slave master who owned both a giant and a dwarf and liked to make them have sex for his guests. |
| 382 | ** There's also Gendry, who at only 14/15 but is noted as being big and tall for his age around 6'3, and tiny Arya Stark who is 10 years old and under 5'. |
| 383 | ** In the prequel story, ''The Sworn Sword'', Ser Duncan (6'11") has a flirtatious relationship with Lady Rohanne (4'11") Webber, who is rather short. It's social status, however, and not height, which gets in the way. |
| 384 | * In the ''Literature/{{Spellsinger}}'' universe, native residents of the fantasy world are significantly shorter than those in the non-magical twenty-first-century world. Talea is in fact quite tall by her native world's standards, but she's much shorter than her love interest, the six-foot FishOutOfWater Jon-Tom. |
| 385 | * Early in ''Literature/TheStand'', Nick meets the sheriff, a huge man, and later his wife, a slight little thing, leading Nick to ponder the trope and its implications. |
| 386 | * ''Literature/{{Stardoc}}'': The [[spoiler:[[DeathOfTheHypotenuse first]]]] love of 4'11", skinny Cherijo Grey Veil's life is [[spoiler:a seven-foot [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Jorenian]]]]. [[spoiler:She [[FirstGirlWins eventually ends up marrying Duncan Reever]]; while he's nowhere near ''that'' big, he's still quite tall.]] |
| 387 | * ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'': Shallan is quite petite, and constantly annoyed at having to jog to keep up with "storming Alethi and their long legs." With Adolin, the problem is exacerbated when he rides his giant ryshadium. |
| 388 | * Corie and Elisandra's parent figures (mother in Elisandra's case), Jaxon and Greta in ''Literature/SummersAtCastleAuburn''. Jaxon is a huge, wild-looking man, while Greta is so small that if she could ever be quiet, people would overlook her. Fortunately for Greta and unfortunately for those around her, she is never quiet. |
| 389 | * Creator/TamoraPierce's ''Literature/TortallUniverse'': |
| 390 | ** [[Literature/ProtectorOfTheSmall Buri and Raoul]]. When introduced in the [[Literature/SongOfTheLioness first book series]], Buri is described as being reasonably short. Raoul is well over six feet, and a massively built warrior, whereas Buri is a waif-like rider. It gets pointed out directly once that when the two stand next to each other, Buri doesn't even reach Raoul's shoulder. |
| 391 | ** Daine and Numair; in ''[[Literature/TheImmortals Wolf-Speaker]]'', it said that Daine was 5 feet 5 inches (at the age of fourteen) and Numair is 6'5", and quite a bit older. |
| 392 | * ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'': Alice and Jasper. Jasper is super tall, lanky, but WAY above average, and Alice is repeatedly described as tiny and pixie-like. Discarded in the film series, where Creator/AshleyGreene and Creator/JacksonRathbone are only 2-3 inches apart in height. There's also any girl with any of the male werewolves. |
| 393 | * In ''Literature/Twisted2010'', Clare is a petite human woman, while Railrunner is an anthropomorphic roller coaster that's over twenty feet long and weighs several thousand pounds. |
| 394 | * ''Literature/{{Vagabond}}'' gives us Pierre, described as nearly seven feet tall, and his wife Yvette, described as being tiny and stick-like. |
| 395 | * Princess Siri in ''{{Literature/Warbreaker}}'' is a slight teenage girl sent off to an ArrangedMarriage with a nearly seven-foot-tall GodEmperor. |
| 396 | * In ''Literature/TheWarGods'', Leanna is unusually tall for this trope, being over six feet tall. However, her husband [[spoiler:Bahzell]] is 7'9". |
| 397 | * In Creator/JohnCWright's ''Literature/WarOfTheDreaming'', half-titan Raven is married to the very, very petite Wendy. She's not kidding when she says he can pick her up with one hand. |
| 398 | * In ''Literature/WatchersOfTheThrone'', the two more combat-oriented protagonists are Aleya and Valerian, who are respectively a regular-sized woman and a giant SuperSoldier. Aleya has her AntiMagic aura to keep up with Valerian. |
| 399 | * Par for the course in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime''. Moiraine and Lan, Nynaeve and Lan, Rand and Min, Perrin and Faile, Mat and Tuon. Rand, Lan, and Perrin are all well above average in size, while Moiraine and Tuon are both particularly small women. |
| 400 | * In Creator/MaryGentle's ''Literature/WhiteCrow'' stories, recurring characters Baltazar Casaubon and Valentine, although that's probably ''mostly'' attributable to Balthazar being [[TheBigGuy absolutely massive]]. |
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| 404 | * On ''Series/ThirtyRock'', 5'4" Liz (Tina Fey) once had an off-screen fling with 7'0" Grizz (Grizz Chapman). |
| 405 | * ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'': Daisy Johnson (5'5) next to Grant Ward (6'2) and Lincoln Campbell (6'1), and platonically with Mack Mackenzie (6'4), Jeffrey Mace (5'11), and Robbie Reyes (6'0), all of which was often emphasised to different effects, particularly once Daisy gained her powers as it helped convey her being a PintsizePowerhouse. Generally downplayed and averted with other guy/girl pairs on the show, as outside of Mack's romance with Yo-Yo Rodriguez (5'6) and Ward's relationship with Kara Palamas (5'4), the rest of the male cast were 5'7-5'10 and barely stood much taller than the women (especially as they often wore heels), with Lance Hunter (5'8) actually being visibly shorter than his ex-wife Bobbi Morse (5'11). |
| 406 | * ''Series/AllInTheFamily'' had Mike and Gloria, played by the 6'2" Creator/RobReiner and 5'1" Creator/SallyStruthers. Gloria often wore platform shoes to help with the size difference, which were in fashion for the first time, so it was even plausible in-character. |
| 407 | * Rene Artois (5'10.5) in ''Series/AlloAllo'' has this going on with two of his mistresses, Maria and Mimi (4'9) (especially Mimi, since her actress is over a foot shorter than Gordon Kaye who plays Rene), to the point they have to stand on a stool to kiss him and neither can hug him and put their arms more than halfway around. |
| 408 | * Austin and Ally from ''Series/AustinAndAlly'' Austin is eleven inches taller than Ally and twice as wide, the top of her head just reaches the bottom of his neck in heels. It's particularly noticeable in the opening sequence, where he crouches down quite a bit, so they are eye to eye. |
| 409 | * On ''Series/BabyDaddy,'' they have Danny Wheeler, played by the 6'6" Creator/DerekTheler, meaning most of his love interests will fall into this to some degree, but they occasionally go out of their way to find especially petite actresses to help sell his GentleGiant demeanor, such as [[http://images6.fanpop.com/image/polls/1317000/1317839_1387317532030_full.jpg Amy,]] played by the 5'2" Creator/LaceyChabert. |
| 410 | * This trope is used for a sight gag on ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'': Frankie (6'1), who is quite tall and large, and his dad (6'4), played by professional wrestler Wrestling/{{Vader}}, are at a meeting in Mr. Feeny's (5'7) office and them stepping out of the room reveals a short, waif woman who's revealed to be Frankie's mom was standing behind them the whole time.[[note]]This joke has a basis in reality. Vader's real-life mother [[SmallParentHugeChild was only 4'10]] and his birth had to be induced early for their safety.[[/note]] |
| 411 | * Carol and Mike Brady on ''Series/TheBradyBunch''. Mike is about three heads taller than Carol. |
| 412 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': |
| 413 | ** Anya (5'5") and her Viking ex Olaf (6'7"). Even before the troll thing. |
| 414 | ** To a lesser extent, [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qZQ09jTUEyQ/TwpSVkiTb9I/AAAAAAAABKc/hzTMpz9FY_I/s1600/Revelations087.jpg Buffy and Angel]] and [[http://www.whedon.info/IMG/jpg/buffy-season-4-episode-10-hush-buffy-riley-promotional-photos-01-hq-0750.jpg Buffy and Riley]]; Creator/SarahMichelleGellar is 5'2" and skinny, and David Boreanaz is 6'0" and muscular, and Marc Blucas is 6'2" and also quite well-built. |
| 415 | ** Lampshaded when Riley Finn comes back in Season 6. Buffy stares at him in disbelief and asks, "Were you always this tall?" |
| 416 | * 5'3 Fiona Glennane (Creator/GabrielleAnwar) in ''Series/BurnNotice'' is fairly small compared to the male cast, with Michael (6') being taller but Sam (6'1) and Jesse (6'3) are more muscular. |
| 417 | * On ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'', often the men are much larger and brawnier than the women, which can be seen particularly with Phoebe, while she was dating Cole, and in the 8th season, when she was with Coop. Milano, who played Phoebe, is 5'1.5". Julian [=McMahon=] (Cole) is 6'2" and Victor Webster (Coop) is 6'4". |
| 418 | * Brooke Burns, hostess of the Creator/{{GSN}} version of ''Series/{{The Chase|GameShow}}'', is 5'8", which is above-average for an American female. However, the trope is played straight when she stands next to the 6'6", 370 lb. Mark "The Beast" Labbett. |
| 419 | * ''Series/{{Chuck}}'': |
| 420 | ** Creator/ZacharyLevi (Chuck) who is 6'3" is at some point paired with Creator/RachelBilson (Lou, a RomanticFalseLead) who is 5'1", a full foot and two inches shorter! She even mentions that she is "intrigued by their height difference". |
| 421 | ** A non-romantic example with Creator/AdamBaldwin as John Casey and Mekenna Melvin, who plays his daughter, Alex. Baldwin is already ''enormous'' (6'4" and [[TheBigGuy built like a tank]]), but Melvin's tiny 5'1" just exaggerates the difference even further. |
| 422 | * In ''Series/TheCityHunter'', actor Creator/LeeMinHo is only comparatively tall at 6'1", but he's huge compared to the diminutive actresses he's paired with. Lampshaded by one of them: |
| 423 | -->"He's so tall that giving him a once-over hurts my neck..." |
| 424 | * Discussed in ''Series/TheCleanerUK''. Wicky is played by the 6'8 Creator/GregDavies, and in one episode he crosses paths with his petite ex-girlfriend Maggie, who left him 20 years ago. While he fondly remembers the sex, for her it was "kinda samey" because there weren't many positions comfortable for both of them, with doggystyle being their default. |
| 425 | -->'''Maggie:''' It was like being taken from behind by the Eiffel Tower! |
| 426 | * On ''Series/{{Community}}'' Jeff - portrayed by 6'4" Creator/JoelMcHale - when paired with either Britta or Annie - respectively the 5'4" Creator/GillianJacobs and the 5'3" Creator/AlisonBrie. |
| 427 | * An identical height difference can be seen in one of the pairings on Season 26 of the U.S. version of ''Series/DancingWithTheStars''—Lindsay Arnold (5'6") and Creator/KareemAbdulJabbar (7'3"). |
| 428 | * ''Series/ADifferentWorld'': |
| 429 | ** 5'11" [[Creator/KadeemHardison Dwayne Wayne]] paired first with [[Creator/LisaBonet Denise Huxtable]] and later [[Creator/JasmineGuy Whitley Gilbert]], both of whom are 5'2". |
| 430 | ** Whitley is the tiny girl with just about anybody she's dating, though it's less noticeable if she wears heels. There's also 5'3" Freddie dating 6'2" Shazza Zulu. |
| 431 | * The episode "Voyage of the Damned" on ''Series/DoctorWho'' had this with the Doctor, played by the 6'1" Creator/DavidTennant, and Astrid Peth, played by Music/KylieMinogue, who is only five feet tall. This is fully played up in one scene when Astrid literally pulls up a box and stands on it to give the Doctor a goodbye kiss. |
| 432 | ** Platonically, it's fairly common in the series with Doctor+Companion pairs. |
| 433 | *** Rose Tyler (5'5" Creator/BilliePiper) with the Ninth (6'0" Creator/ChristopherEccleston) and the aforementioned Tenth Doctor, who also travelled with Martha Jones (5'1.5" Creator/FreemaAgyeman). |
| 434 | *** Clara Oswald (5'2" Creator/JennaColeman) with the Eleventh (5'11.5" Creator/MattSmith) and Twelfth Doctors (6' Creator/PeterCapaldi). |
| 435 | *** 5'4" Creator/ElisabethSladen with her Doctors, 6'3" Creator/TomBaker and 6'2" Creator/JonPertwee. Third Doctor companion Creator/KatyManning was even shorter, at 5'1"! |
| 436 | *** The Fifth Doctor (6'0" Peter Davison) with his three female companions Tegan (Creator/JanetFielding), Nyssa (Creator/SarahSutton), and Peri (Creator/NicolaBryant) who stand at 5'1"-5'2", continued with the Sixth Doctor (6'0" Creator/ColinBaker) and Peri and Mel (5' Creator/BonnieLangford). |
| 437 | * ''Series/{{ER}}'': 6'4" Luka Kovac (Goran Visnjic) dated 5'2" Abby Lockhart (Maura Tierney) and 5'3" Samantha Taggart (Linda Cardellini). |
| 438 | * ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'': |
| 439 | ** There's 6'1.5" Creator/RayRomano with 5'2" Creator/PatriciaHeaton. |
| 440 | ** Robert is played by the 6'8" Creator/BradGarrett, and his long-term love interest on the show is the 5'6" Amy (Creator/MonicaHoran). After they have sex for the first time, she [[SexyShirtSwitch puts on his pants]] and they're long enough to keep her modest. In fact, you could bring up any romantic interest Brad Garrett had throughout the course of the show... it's Brad Garrett, after all. |
| 441 | ** Though it is not a romantic relationship, whenever Robert (6'8") stands next to Debra (5'2"), the 18-inch height difference is, obviously, really noticeable. |
| 442 | ** Frank Barone (Peter Boyle; 6'2") was 13" taller than Marie (Doris Roberts; 5'1"). |
| 443 | ** Parodied in one episode when Debra's in-laws come to visit, and Debra's mother (Katherine Helmond), who is just as short as Debra, tries to kiss Robert on the cheek. |
| 444 | * ''Series/FawltyTowers''. Basil (6'5") towers over his extremely petite wife, Sybil (5'3.5"). Meanwhile, Creator/JohnCleese towers over his extremely petite then-wife, Creator/ConnieBooth (5'4"). |
| 445 | * ''Series/GameOfThrones'': |
| 446 | ** Daenerys Targaryen is fairly short and slight, while her husband Khal Drogo is pretty damn massive, with Dany ''barely'' coming up to his chest. He is a really beefy dude as well. For real-life reference, Creator/EmiliaClarke (Daenerys) is 5'2", while Creator/JasonMomoa (Drogo) is all of 6'4", and, as mentioned above, has the body of a rugby player. She is also this with Daario, who is at least six feet tall. Averted with Jon Snow (5'7" Creator/KitHarington), which is lampshaded in the final season: |
| 447 | --->'''Dany:''' This is only the second time I've felt this way about someone. |
| 448 | --->'''Sansa:''' Who was the first? |
| 449 | --->'''Dany:''' Someone ''taller''. |
| 450 | ** Non-romantic example: Arya, at barely 5'0" and skinny for her age, has this with Gendry (who is noted to take after his well-built father) when they travel together for several seasons and later ends up roaming the countryside with Sander "The Hound" Clegane, at 6'6", which looks quite amusing. |
| 451 | * ''Series/{{Glee}}'': |
| 452 | ** [[http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/8000000/1x02-finn-and-rachel-8089622-277-400.jpg has]] Finn (6'3" Creator/CoryMonteith) and Rachel (5'2" Creator/LeaMichele)]] along with Ken and Emma (5'4) to a lesser extent. |
| 453 | ** A subversion occurs with [[https://38.media.tumblr.com/1959ab65ee7c62256886ddd8991a4237/tumblr_mjcr4e9bbA1qgghb8o1_r1_500.gif Kurt (5'9.5") and Blaine (5'8")]] on-screen: Creator/ChrisColfer (Kurt) is somewhat taller than Creator/DarrenCriss (Blaine). However, Kurt is the more feminine of the two, which creates a general expectation that if anything, Blaine should be taller than Kurt. The fact that Kurt is the taller one if only by so much, makes the size difference between them seem bigger to the viewer than it actually is. In season 2 when Blaine was playing a mentor role for Kurt, the show actively tried to hide their height difference, even in promo photoshoots. |
| 454 | * On ''Series/{{Haven}},'' 5'1" Creator/EmmaLahana plays Jennifer, LoveInterest to 6'2" Creator/EricBalfour's Duke in season 4. It's not usually noticeable thanks to heels and creative camera angles that [[ForcedPerspective make them seem closer in height]] than they actually are. It does, however, mean it's jarring when their height difference is actually shown, such as one scene in which they're having an eye-to-eye conversation...while she is standing and he is ''sitting down.'' |
| 455 | * ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': |
| 456 | ** Matt (186 cm/6'1 and large) and Daphne (157 cm/5'2" and petite). |
| 457 | ** Sylar is 185 cm (6'1) and Elle is 155 cm (5'1"). He has the same height difference with Claire (5'0"). |
| 458 | ** Claire and any guy she stands next to, including Hiro (5'6") (that's right, Hiro's actually ''taller'' than somebody!), Peter (5'9"), the aforementioned Sylar, and her father(s). |
| 459 | ** Noah Bennet (6'2.5") and Eden (5'5") are boss and subordinate, she is clearly tinier than him and is only slightly taller than Claire. |
| 460 | ** Mira, Mohinder's on-and-off girlfriend, is five-foot-nothing, while he's 5'10". There are only a couple scenes where the height difference is noticeable... but it's [[https://i.imgur.com/wJGPYrh.png very noticeable]]. The actors also happened to be in a play called "Hatef**k" later on in their careers, with a scene where Creator/KaviLadnier pretty much climbs Creator/SendhilRamamurthy like a tree. |
| 461 | * ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' had Emma Zoole, played by 5'1.5" Lauren Tom, briefly dating Tim Bayliss, played by 6'4" Kyle Secor. Before that, she flirted with the 6'2" Lewis. |
| 462 | * House and Cuddy were together in season seven of ''Series/{{House}}''. Hugh Laurie is 6'2.5", while Lisa Edelstein is 5'6", putting them 8.5 inches apart. |
| 463 | * ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': |
| 464 | ** Lily and Marshall, with a solid foot difference between Creator/AlysonHannigan (5'4.5") and Creator/JasonSegel (6'4"). At one point, during a PregnancyScare, she panicked when she was told that Marshall was the size of a Thanksgiving turkey when born. A Halloween episode had them dressed up as Sonny and Cher -- with Lily as Sonny and Marshall as Cher. Lily once had a nightmare about Marshall leaving her for a woman who was, in Nightmare!Marshall's words, "more height appropriate." |
| 465 | ** This extends to Marshall's entire family with Lily. In his family he is the "runt of the litter" and when visiting she could only give waist hugs. The shortest member of his family is his mother, played by 6'2" [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Suzie Plakson]], who seems short in relation to her giant sons. |
| 466 | * ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'': 5' 3" Nico Saiba supplies her height with 2" inch platform shoes and an aggressive personality, much to the [[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave misfortune of]] Taiga Hanaya, who easily towers over her at 5' 11.5" but still gets pushed, manhandled and bossed around easily. They're basically like a [[ManicPixieDreamGirl yappy]] Chihuahua and a [[ShellShockedVeteran melancholic]] Great Dane. |
| 467 | * ''Series/KamenRiderSaber'' serves a nonromantic example with the duo of [[GentleGiant Touma Kamiyama]] (185 cm / 6' 1" Shuichiro Naito) and [[GenkiGirl Mei Sudo]] (163 cm / 5' 4" Asuka Kawazu). It's often used for comedic effect, as Touma doesn't realize how tall he is and that trying to hide behind someone is futile when nearly everyone around is either shorter or much shorter. |
| 468 | * ''Series/TheLastShip'' has [[OfficialCouple Danny and Kara Green]]. He is played by 5'11" Travis Van Winkle and she is played by 5'2" Marissa Neitling. |
| 469 | * Bobby Goren (Creator/VincentDOnofrio, 6'4") and Alexandra Eames (Creator/KathrynErbe, 5'4") are detective partners on ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent''. He's a foot taller than she is, broad-shouldered and, as the series goes on, increasingly barrel-chested. She's slim and tiny and sometimes looks like he could put her in his pocket. |
| 470 | ** The CI casting directors doubled down on this when they brought back Mike Logan (6'1" Creator/ChrisNoth) in Season 5, pairing him with Carolyn Barek (Creator/AnnabellaSciorra, 5'3"). Makes it pretty fun when all four partners are in the squad room together in "In The Wee Small Hours". This one is only for a single season, as Sciorra did not return after Season 5, and Logan's subsequent parters, Megan Wheeler (Creator/JulianneNicholson, 5'9") and Nola Falacci (Creator/AliciaWitt, 5'8"), avert the "tiny girl" half of the trope. |
| 471 | ** Two episodes in Season 8 also had Eames paired up with Nichols (Creator/JeffGoldblum, 6'5"), who is less broad than Logan or Goren but is taller than either of them, and he just towers over her whenever they're standing next to each other. There's also a point in the Season 9 premiere when Eames, Goren, and Nichols are working as a trio, further exaggerating the effect. (Nichols only ever gets it with Eames, however, since both of his regular partners, Wheeler and Serena Stevens (Creator/SaffronBurrows, 6'0"), are more than tall enough to avert that part of the trope.) |
| 472 | * ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' has Amaya Jiwe (5'5") with both Mick Rory (6'2") and Nathaniel Heywood (6'0"). |
| 473 | * ''Series/{{Life|2007}}'': Big lopey Charlie Crews (Creator/DamianLewis, 6'1") and tiny spitfire Dani Reese (Creator/SarahShahi, 5'3"). |
| 474 | * ''Series/LivAndMaddie'' has Maddie and Diggy, played by Creator/DoveCameron (5'2") and Creator/RyanMcCartan (6'1") the top of her head barely comes up to his shoulders (also counts as a real-life example as Cameron and [=McCartan=] are actually dating). |
| 475 | * In the "The Final Four" episode of Creator/NeilFlynn's show ''Series/TheMiddle'', the trope is lampshaded when his character meets his wife's (5'2") Boss (5'8.5") for the first time and the Boss remarks about how short women always go for tall men. |
| 476 | * During the run of ''Live with Kelly and Michael'' (formerly known as ''Live With Regis and Kathie Lee/Kelly''), Creator/KellyRipa (tiny soap opera star, 5'3") was paired with Creator/MichaelStrahan (tall former [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague New York Giants]] defensive lineman, 6'5"). {{Averted|Trope}} in the show's current incarnation as ''Live with Kelly and Ryan'', with Ripa being paired with the 5'7" Ryan Seacrest. |
| 477 | * ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Nori, is a teenage [[{{Hobbits}} Harfoot]] girl, and The Stranger, one of the Istari sent on Middle-earth, has a human form. The difference in height between them is quite noticeable, but this does not stops them from being good friends. |
| 478 | * ''Series/MaxAndPaddysRoadToNowhere'', had an exaggerated version of this with Max (played by the quite tall and fat Creator/PeterKay) and his ex-girlfriend Tina, who has dwarfism. Tina's height was actually the subject of mean jokes back when Max and Tina were dating, [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend prompting Max to punch anyone who made those jokes]]. Sadly, Max himself wasn't above making such jokes, and it cost him his relationship with Tina when she overheard him letting his bouncer mates be rude about her (and left him before he headbutted one of them for going too far). Nowadays, Tina still fits this trope with her husband Kevin Wolfson/"The Wolfster". |
| 479 | * ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' paired [[SixthRanger Tommy]] (5'10") with [[ValleyGirl Kimberly]] (5'1"). |
| 480 | * ''Series/MockTheWeek'' paired up Creator/GregDavies (6'8") and Creator/LucyPorter (4'11") for a sight gag referencing ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''. |
| 481 | --> '''Greg:''' This will never work, Frodo! |
| 482 | * Played with in ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''' "Scott of the Antarctic" sketch, where initially the actor playing Scott is walking around with boxes under his shoes, while Miss Evans is standing in a trench. Pythonesque absurdity ensues. |
| 483 | * Herman (6'5") and Lily (5'4.25") from ''Series/TheMunsters''. |
| 484 | * ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': It's not entirely fair to call Creator/FeliciaDay ''tiny'' (5'4") but with Creator/JonahRay more than a foot taller at 6'5", their lone on-screen pairing in the wedding scene in the revival season finale evokes this trope pretty blatantly. |
| 485 | * ''{{Series/Nashville}}'': |
| 486 | ** When Juliette introduces her fiancee Sean to the musicians, he is ''way'' taller than she is. |
| 487 | ** Gunnar and Scarlett are another example, played by the 6'2" Creator/SamPalladio and the 5'2" Clare Bowen. |
| 488 | * Another platonic example on ''[[Series/NCISLosAngeles NCIS: LA]]'' - Boss Hetty (played by 4'9" Linda Hunt) is frequently in scenes opposite team psychologist Nate (played by 6'5" Peter Cambor), as they are two of the 'left behind' characters when the team go on missions. This is often played for laughs, with Nate forced to stoop over Hetty's Hetty-sized desk. |
| 489 | * Almost every pairing on ''Series/NightCourt'', given that the entire male cast was [[https://www.deseret.com/1990/3/14/18851218/night-court-tv-s-tallest-team freakishly tall]], at one point even holding the world record for the tallest male cast. |
| 490 | ** Marsha Warfield (who is 5'11") joked that working on that show was the only time in her adult life that she felt petite. |
| 491 | ** Especially true of 6'3" Charlie Robinson (Mac) and screen spouse Denice Kumagai (Quon Le), who is 4'11". |
| 492 | * ''Series/TheOfficeUS'': |
| 493 | ** Dwight Schrute (6'2.5) and Angela Martin (5'1). Another one of the reasons the pairing is cute despite its obvious weirdness. |
| 494 | ** Darryl (6'1.5) and Kelly (5'5), too. Also somewhat difficult to avoid with an actor as tall as Creator/JohnKrasinski (6'3"). |
| 495 | * ''Series/OneOnOne'' focuses on the 6'4" Flex Washington and his 5'4" teenage daughter Breanna. |
| 496 | * Andy (played by 6'2" Creator/ChrisPratt) and April (played by 5'5" Creator/AubreyPlaza) on ''Series/ParksAndRecreation''. In addition to being nine inches taller, Andy's about twice as broad as she is. It's best shown when he tries to protect her from a bee swarm and is able to cover most of her upper body with his jumper, while her head still only barely reaches the bottom of his neck. |
| 497 | * ''Series/PushingDaisies'' had most of its relationships qualify -- its four leads were a pair of tall guys (actors Lee Pace and Chi [=McBride=] are 6'3.5" and 6'4.5", respectively) and a pair of petite women (actors Creator/KristinChenoweth and Creator/AnnaFriel are 4'10" and 5'3", respectively). As it made for some great sight gags, the writers loved to play with this trope. |
| 498 | * ''Series/{{QI}}'' was originally hosted by Stephen Fry (6'5"); he was replaced by one of the show's frequent panelists, Sandi Toksvig (5'0"). |
| 499 | * ''Series/RogerAndValHaveJustGotIn'': While Dawn French is somewhat of a larger lady but she is short-statured, especially compared to Alfred Molina. (She stands at 5'0" whereas he stands at 6'2".) |
| 500 | * ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' gives us the AlmightyJanitor (6'5") and his wife, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Lady]]. |
| 501 | * On ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', the petite Elaine and her barrel-chested recurring love interest David Puddy. Additionally, Creator/PatrickWarburton is 6'2", while Creator/JuliaLouisDreyfus is 5'2.5", making him almost a foot taller. |
| 502 | * On ''Series/{{Selfie}}'', Creator/JohnCho's Henry dates a girl he's alike with in almost every way -- except while he's slightly taller than average (Cho stands at 5'10"), she's positively tiny, not even making it to 5 feet of height, with nearly a full foot difference between them. |
| 503 | * [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/shakespeare/tamingoftheshrew/photogallery_kate_petruchio.shtml The lead characters (5'0.5") and (6')]] in the ''Series/ShakespeareReTold'' version of ''The Taming Of The Shrew''. |
| 504 | * ''Series/SleepyHollow'' gives us Ichabod and Abbie, played by Creator/TomMison, who is 6'1", and Creator/NicoleBeharie, who is 5'1", respectively. She comes up to his shoulder, and that's in ''heels''. |
| 505 | * ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': |
| 506 | ** Clark and Lana. With Creator/TomWelling being 6'2.5"/189 cm while Creator/KristinKreuk is 5'3"/160 cm |
| 507 | ** Clark and Chloe (5'5") count non-romantically, too. Creator/AllisonMack has to wear high heels and it's been mentioned [[ScullyBox she has to stand on a box]] in some scenes. |
| 508 | * ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' has Creator/JasonMomoa (6'4") so this comes up a couple of times. First, there's some ShipTease with Dr. Keller, then the show ends on a MaybeEverAfter between Ronon and Amelia Banks. Both actresses are about 5'5". |
| 509 | * ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': |
| 510 | ** Will Riker (Creator/JonathanFrakes at 6'3" was tied for tallest regular Star Trek actor) and Deanna Troi (Creator/MarinaSirtis, 5'3"). |
| 511 | ** Also Worf (Creator/MichaelDorn, at 6'2") and Troi. |
| 512 | * ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'': Michael Burnham (5'4" Sonequa Martin-Green) and Ash Tyler (6'1.5" Shazad Latif). |
| 513 | * ''Series/StrangerThings'' has a ([[UnresolvedSexualTension mostly]]) non-romantic example in Hopper and Joyce, played by bulky 6'2.5" David Harbour and slender 5'2" Winona Ryder respectively. Between height and width, he looks about twice her size whenever they appear on screen together. |
| 514 | * ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': |
| 515 | ** In season four, Sam Winchester (played by 6'4" Creator/JaredPadalecki) and Ruby (5'3" Creator/GenevievePadalecki) definitely fit this trope (they are also a real-life example as Padalecki and Cortese later got married). Naturally, Padalecki towers over virtually every actress he has ever been paired with, romantically or otherwise. He even tends to make his male co-stars look much shorter and smaller than they actually are, including his on-screen brother Creator/JensenAckles (who is 6'0"). |
| 516 | ** The eighth episode of season 7 gave us Sam and [[spoiler:[[FanGirl Becky Rosen-Winchester (5'4)]]]]. |
| 517 | * The mini-series adaption of ''Literature/ToTheEndsOfTheEarth'' has this with protagonist Edmund Talbot and his LoveInterest Marion Chumley. Creator/BenedictCumberbatch stands at 6'0", while Creator/JoannaPage is 5'1.5", making him a full ten-and-a-half inches taller than her. The difference onscreen is rather glaring. |
| 518 | * ''Series/TrueLies2023'': Harry (Creator/SteveHowey, 6'4) is much taller than Helen (Creator/GingerGonzaga, 5'5) which is very noticeable whenever they kiss, stand right by each other etc. |
| 519 | * Series/VeronicaMars (Creator/KristenBell, 5'1") hooks up with Logan Echolls (Creator/JasonDohring, 5'11"). |
| 520 | * In ''Series/{{Watching}}'', Malcolm is very tall and lanky. Brenda is... not. |
| 521 | * On ''Series/TheXFiles'', Creator/DavidDuchovny (6'0") was ten inches taller than Creator/GillianAnderson (5'2"). Hence the "ScullyBox". |
| 522 | [[/folder]] |
| 523 | |
| 524 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 525 | * Eek-A-Mouse's song Rude Boy is about people having a problem with him being so much taller than his girlfriend. With the lyrics ''Whole heap a people jus' a start to laugh''\ |
| 526 | ''She too short an' a me too tall''\ |
| 527 | ''She too short an' a me too tall, ey'' (it's in Jamaican Patois) |
| 528 | * The video for Music/{{Aerosmith}}'s "Love in an Elevator" has, among 2 mannequins coming to life and various couples, as Steven Tyler puts it in the song, "shagging in the elevator", there is one couple consisting of a huge man and a female midget. |
| 529 | * Music/FleetwoodMac gives us 5'1" Stevie Nicks and 6'5" Mick Fleetwood. Never officially a couple, but they did have an affair. The cover of ''Music/{{Rumours}}'' is a photo of the two of them which clearly shows the massive height difference between them. |
| 530 | * The music video for "Paparazzi" had the 5'1" Music/LadyGaGa dating 6'4" Alexander Skarsgard. |
| 531 | * Märchen von Friedhof and Elise from the RockOpera, ''[[Music/SoundHorizon Märchen]]''. Märchen himself isn't exceptionally tall, but he doesn't need to be when Elise is the size of a porcelain doll. |
| 532 | * Music/{{Gorillaz}} gives us a platonic example with Russel and Noodle, particularly in [[http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/17100000/Noodle-and-Russel-Plastic-Beach-russel-hobbs-17198524-1024-768.jpg Phase Three]], though the Gorillabitez short "Game Of Death" shows that [[WaifFu she was able to flip him at age ten]]. To a lesser extent, Noodle is also a MoralityPet for Murdoc, who is fairly tall (though not huge) at 5'10" and 2D who is 6'3" was shown carrying her on his back in the video for "Rock It". |
| 533 | * The Music/JonathanCoulton song "Just As Long As Me" is about a guy who is sick of this trope and is trying to find a love interest of comparable height. |
| 534 | * Rapper Sage The Gemini is 6'5" and towers over most of the girls in his music videos, especially noticeable in "Red Nose" (where he towers over pretty much everybody). |
| 535 | * Music/LindaRonstadt had this with Aaron Neville on their album ''Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind''. |
| 536 | * Music/CaroleKing and James Taylor when they recorded and toured together in the 1970s as well as concerts in 2007 & 2010. As well as James Taylor & Bonnie Raitt over many concerts between 2017 & 2019. |
| 537 | [[/folder]] |
| 538 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 539 | * In the podcast ''Podcast/PastDivision'', party members Lolli Rose and Peter Panda are 3'3" and 7'6", respectively. |
| 540 | [[/folder]] |
| 541 | |
| 542 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 543 | * Silhouette's weight in Future of Wrestling was listed as "not telling", but it was safe to say it was significantly less than the wrestler she managed and lured away from Bobby Rogers, Maximum Capacity, who weighed in at 658 lbs. |
| 544 | * Particularly in Wrestling/{{WWE}}, where they appreciate the big man (perhaps too much), there can be a lot of Huge Guy Tiny Girl relationships. The hinted-at relationship of 7' (2.1m), then-(approximately) 485 lb. (220kg) Wrestling/TheBigShow and, though she was not very slender herself, 5'3" (160cm) Joy Giovanni, for example. |
| 545 | * 5'3" Wrestling/AJLee and damn-near-seven-feet-tall Wrestling/{{Kane}}. |
| 546 | * Wrestling/NatalyaNeidhart and the over-seven-feet-tall [[Wrestling/TheGreatKhali Great Khali]]. |
| 547 | * Five Feet of Fury Wrestling/AlexaBliss and the near 7-foot, near 400-pound Monster Among Men Wrestling/BraunStrowman in the Wrestling/WWEMixedMatchChallenge. |
| 548 | * At ''Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}} Aniversario Zehn'', May 22, 2010, The Throwbacks (Wrestling/DasherHatfield and Wrestling/SugarDunkerton) faced the Wrestling/DieBruderschaftDesKreuzes team of Wrestling/DaizeeHaze and Wrestling/{{Tursas}}. She's 5'4", 110 lbs., he's 6'8", 376 lbs. |
| 549 | * Wrestling/TheOddities had Wrestling/{{Kurrgan}}, [[Wrestling/JohnTenta Golga]] and Wrestling/GiantSilva, all 6-7 feet or more and over 400 lbs. Wrestling/LunaVachon and Wrestling/{{Sable}}, not so much. |
| 550 | [[/folder]] |
| 551 | |
| 552 | [[folder:Roleplay]] |
| 553 | * Mirielle's parents from ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues''. Her father is noted to be a hulk of a man, clearing six feet with large muscles, while his wife is much slimmer and smaller. They're modeled after Marinette's parents from ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', who are also an example of the trope. |
| 554 | * In ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'', while this is not normally looked at in a romantic way, Bayview (V4's school) has an abnormally tall population. The current average height of a female student is a relatively normal 5'5"...the male population, on the other hand, has the average height of 6'2". |
| 555 | * ''Roleplay/ViridianDreamsQuests'': |
| 556 | ** Lucy (5'7") and Michael (8'0") of ''Vampire Quest''. |
| 557 | ** Peri (4'7") and Leto (5'9" and growing) of ''Necromancy Quest''. |
| 558 | [[/folder]] |
| 559 | |
| 560 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 561 | * In the ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' 25th Anniversary concert: tiny Lea Salonga as Fantine and Jeff Nicholson, who's taller than the rest of the cast as the Factory Foreman. |
| 562 | * Gertrude and Horton in ''Theatre/{{Seussical}}'': [[InterspeciesRomance Gertrude is a bird and Horton is an elephant]]. |
| 563 | * ''Literature/TheWildParty'': Eddie and Mae, tiny dancer and hulking boxer. Like their song, "Two of a Kind" puts it, "She's two feet below me. And we're two of a kind". |
| 564 | [[/folder]] |
| 565 | |
| 566 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 567 | * The two default players from ''VideoGame/AssaultRetribution'', Reno Washington is a ScaryBlackMan who is a walking pile of muscles, while Kelly Doyle is a smaller, petite woman ([[SmallGirlBigGun but gets to use increasingly larger weapons each stage]]). |
| 568 | * Astro Boy's younger sister Uran seems to have this kind of relationship with the giant robot Pluto in at least one of the alternate timelines in ''VideoGame/AstroBoyOmegaFactor''. |
| 569 | * ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil'' gives us Jade and Double H: [[IntrepidReporter Tiny Reporter]], [[TheBigGuy Huge Soldier]]. Whether it's romantic or not is a debate [[{{Shipping}} best left to the shippers.]] |
| 570 | * Non-romantic example: A Big Daddy and a Little Sister from ''VideoGame/BioShock''. One's a giant of a man in a bulky armored diving suit while the other is a girl less than ten years old in a child's dress. |
| 571 | * From ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow'', there's [[CuteMute Claudia]] and her guardian, the [[{{Magitek}} Black]] [[{{Golem}} Knight]]. |
| 572 | * Happens easily in ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' where your typical female PC is under 5'10" (178cm) (often under 5' (152cm) even) in height while many male [=PCs=] are past the 6'6" (2m) mark and top out at 8'2" (2.5m). Males also have exclusive access to the huge muscular models while females are kept on the slender side. |
| 573 | ** Happens with {{NPC}}s as well. The Carnival of Shadows is the most extreme example, where the Strongmen are 3-4 times the size of the women who order them around. |
| 574 | ** There's also Ghost Widow and the Wretch. It's hard to tell if it's romantic, seeing as she's a literal ghost, and he's a horribly mutated brute with so little brainpower it hurts his head to talk. Still, they definitely care a lot about each other, and it's possible there was something there before they both lost their humanity to the same accident. |
| 575 | * ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'': |
| 576 | ** [[BigFun Jackie Welles]] is a very stocky man who's about a head taller and much stronger than his girlfriend, [[PerkyGoth Misty]]. He can also form a platonic variant with female [[PlayerCharacter V]], who's about as tall as Misty. |
| 577 | ** Female V's male romance partner is [[ByTheBookCop River Ward]], who's much taller and muscular than V. |
| 578 | * ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' has Knight Artorias (around 9 feet tall) and Lord's Blade Ciaran (around 6 feet tall). [[ImpliedLoveInterest Their relationship may or may not be romantic in nature.]] |
| 579 | * It is far from uncommon for the ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 5}}'' fanbase to pair [[TokenMiniMoe Usalia]] and [[LargeAndInCharge Red Magnus]] together. Not only is Usalia proportioned like a child (and possibly as young as one in demon terms), but Red Magnus is a big, bulky musclehead ''before'' his {{Sizeshifter}} powers come into play. The [[EarthShatteringKaboom Demon Star Splitter]] combo skill makes the distinction especially clear, as Red Magnus gets to be so big you can't even ''see'' Usalia anymore. |
| 580 | * ''Franchise/DragonAge'': |
| 581 | ** In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', a female dwarf Warden can pull this off with anyone, naturally (well, except another dwarf). Female elves are quite small, too, but the human men are at most OneHeadTaller than them (though due to the HeroicBuild favored by [[OnlyOneFemaleMold every guy in the game]], they're also still quite a bit wider). |
| 582 | ** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' can invoke this if male Hawke (whose build is very tall and burly) romances Merrill (a tiny elf woman). |
| 583 | *** The non-romantic variant is also seen in the prologue, regardless of Hawke's gender, with their twin siblings Carver and Bethany. Carver is a tall, brawny FarmBoy while Bethany is a slip of a mage. |
| 584 | ** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' takes it even further with the Iron Bull, a [[TheBigGuy large]] [[HornedHumanoid Qunari]], when he's romanced by a dwarf, elf, or human of either gender. With a dwarf Inquisitor, it's particularly humorous in the base game's ending where the couple is making out on the patio... and your character is clearly standing on a stool. |
| 585 | *** Also seen if a Qunari Inquisitor romances Josephine or Sera. Josephine is about average for a human woman, but Adaar is huge by comparison; it's even more pronounced with Sera, who is an elf. |
| 586 | * Subverted in ''VideoGame/DragonBallFighterz'': Artificial No. 16 is so huge that his mother, Artificial No. 21, looks short when standing next to him, when in reality she's a StatuesqueStunner who is around the same height as Son Goku. |
| 587 | * Although non-romantic, Guan Yu (6' 8.75"/205 cm) towers over his daughter Guanyinping (5' 3"/160 cm) in the ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'' games. Lu Bu and Meng Huo are even taller than Guan Yu, but the willowy Diaochan and amazonian Zhurong are just tall enough to fit into [[OneHeadTaller One Head Taller]]. |
| 588 | * In ''VideoGame/EnderLiliesQuietusOfTheKnights'',it's justified as Lily is small and only a child while many of the spirits protecting her are fully grown men and women (and hardened warriors) in their past lives. |
| 589 | * ''VideoGame/EnslavedOdysseyToTheWest'' gives us Monkey and Trip. Monkey is a HUGE, muscular wild man who can pretty easily rip war robots into pieces. Trip is a light, young teenager who relies on her brains to get things done. He carries her around on his back and throws her onto ledges and across gaps like it's nothing. She's only nineteen, and we aren't really given an age for Monkey, but it's safe to assume that he's a few years older than her. |
| 590 | * ''VideoGame/EXTRAPOWERAttackOfDarkforce'': Ran Ran and En, rivals of Fei and Ri=ko. Ran Ran is a diminutive, toddler-sized child and a disciple of the spirit medium Master Wu. En is a large, taciturn youkai and her protector. |
| 591 | * In ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', while the player character is not particularly small, they'll still have this relationship with the permanently power armor-clad Paladin Danse. |
| 592 | ** Technically this relationship can be justified with any character in power armor, but it's especially relevant with Danse, who just won't leave it. |
| 593 | * ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': |
| 594 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' (mainly Dirge of Cerberus), Vincent Valentine (6'0") and Yuffie Kisaragi (5'2")(especially for those who are huge fans of [[PortmanteauCoupleName Yuffentine]]). In ''Dirge of Cerberus'', Vincent shares a lot of screen time with diminutive Shelke Rui, a woman with the body of a nine-year-old girl who stands between 4'6" and 4'10". For an even greater height difference, Shelke also has several scenes with Azul (9'5"), more than double her height. |
| 595 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', the BetaCouple [[CuteBruiser Selphie Tilmitt]] (5'2") and [[FriendlySniper Irvine Kinneas]] (6'0"). |
| 596 | ** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', the villain [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty who's interested in Yuna and does end up marrying her]] freaking ''towers'' over her. Official heights don't make sense and seem to vary between FMV-models and gameplay models, but general fannish consensus is that Yuna hovers around 5'3", while Seymour is something like 6'4" with a fondness for hairstyles and clothing that makes him look larger than he already is. |
| 597 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'' Elvaan and Galka males typically dwarf the females of all the other races. However, {{Fanon}} seems to have particular fondness for Mithra/Male Elvaan parings, often exaggerating this element to extreme degrees. Most likely it's because the Mithra are cute little CatGirl, and the Elvaan are towering Elf {{Bishonen}}. |
| 598 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'': Serah, who is around Vanille's height of 5'4" and just as slim, is engaged to Snow, who is 6'5 (or 6'7, depending on the source) and has a strong muscular build. |
| 599 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'': |
| 600 | *** The sultana Nanamo Ul Namo is a [[LittlePeople Lalafell]], the smallest race in Eorzea. Her right hand is the Flame General Raubahn Aldynn, a Hyur Highlander who's both large and strongly built. When Nanamo wants to address a crowd, Raubahn will even carry her by having the sultana sit on his forearm like a falcon. |
| 601 | *** Although most races have their males and females with similar ranges of height, the Au Ra are the exception; males range from 80 to 85 inches (which overlaps with Roegadyn range), while females range from 57 to 62 inches (which is just shorter than Miqo'te, and only taller than Lalafell). |
| 602 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'', siblings Gladiolus and Iris Amicitia stand 6'6" and 5'3', respectively - a 15-inch difference in height. |
| 603 | * ''Franchise/FireEmblem'': |
| 604 | ** Hector and Florina's ending in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'' could qualify. [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v139/VincentASM/Site/FE7/56.png Judge for yourself.]] |
| 605 | *** Another example would be [[WhiteMagicianGirl the Cleric Serra]] and [[MightyGlacier General Oswin]] from the same game, if they get paired up (This one's also MayDecemberRomance, as she's half his age). There's also Dorcas and his NPC wife, Natalie. If we go to non-romantic lines, we have [[TheStoic the Berserker Hawkeye]] and [[MysteriousWaif the Dancer Ninian]] - [[spoiler:until she's forced to break out her dragon form by Nergal's magic, whereupon the [[TinyGuyHugeGirl situation reverses]]]]. Also, Jaffar and Nino. |
| 606 | *** ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn Radiant Dawn]]'' takes the HoYay between Ike and Soren to [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend canonical proportions]]... and Ike towers over Soren. Also, there's Sothe and Micaiah. |
| 607 | *** Any of GentleGiant Arden's pairings in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar Genealogy of the Holy War]]'', especially with the [[FragileSpeedster Pegasus Knight Fury]] or the [[ActionMom Swordswoman Ayra]] |
| 608 | *** Also, in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones The Sacred Stones]]'', Gilliam/Syrene, Ross and Amelia, and the mentoring/father-daughter bond between Amelia and Duessel. L'Arachel and Dozla is a non-romantic example as well... more in muscles since according to a support conversation with Ewan, Dozla is shorter than most. |
| 609 | *** ''Manga/FireEmblemChampionsSword'', the AlternateContinuity manga of ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade Binding Blade]]'' has [[spoiler: [[MightyGlacier Gant]] and [[RebelliousPrincess Celdia]]]]. [[OfficialCouple Becomes official]] [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue at the end]] and overlaps with HotSkittyOnWailordAction, since they have ''eight'' kids together. |
| 610 | *** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade'', you can pair up Lilina (Roy's childhood friend and one of his love interests) with the GentleGiant Gonzales. |
| 611 | ** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', this is the case for the very short and very [[OlderThanTheyLook child-looking]] [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Divine Dragon]] Nowi and almost all of her love interests, particularly [[CoolOldGuy Gregor]], [[GentleGiant Kellam]], [[MasterSwordsman Lon'qu]] and [[TheBigGuy Vaike]]. Also, [[PlayerCharacter Female Robin]] can hook up with a specially tall guy (like those above, plus [[BaldOfAuthority Basilio]], [[spoiler: [[BloodKnight Priam]] ]] and others) and ''specially'' [[spoiler: the HeelFaceTurn-ed Walhart]] who seems to be the tallest and most muscular of them ALL. [[note]]Though this only works if Female Robin has the "early teen" (very short girl who seems to be under 15 years old) or "late teen" (average height girl) builds; the "older woman" build makes her rather tall.)[[/note]] The last one also overlaps with MayDecemberRomance. |
| 612 | *** While not ''as'' extreme as in Nowi's case, pairing up the very short and young TomboyPrincess Lissa with a specially tall guy (like the aforementioned Gregor, Lon'qu, Kellam, and Vaike) can give a similar impression. |
| 613 | *** Male Robin can hook up with either Lissa or Nowi and invoke the trope via using either Build 1 (standard, rather tall but not exaggeratedly so) or Build 3 (TheBigGuy, around Gregor and/or Vaike's height) |
| 614 | *** In regards to [[spoiler: the Second Generation]] group - Yarne, Brady and Gerome are the tallest guys of the band (with Laurent following not too far behind ''and'' adding a HUGE hat) whereas girl!Morgan, Cynthia, and Nah are the shortest girls. Pairing them up causes this trope to happen. Nah and Cynthia can also marry Male Robin, and Female Robin can hook up with either Yarne, Brady, Gerome, or Laurent, so... |
| 615 | ** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' can potentially have the trope in regards to almost any woman who marries the GentleGiant Benny, the {{hunk}} Arthur, or the {{Warrior Prince}}s Ryoma and Xander. This includes Female Corrin, and double if she has the "younger girl" build. |
| 616 | *** Regarding the [[spoiler: Second Generation]], this can happen if either [[spoiler: Benny's son]] Ignatius, [[spoiler: Xander]]'s son Siegbert or [[spoiler: Ryoma]]'s son Shiro marries a short girl, like the positively tiny BadassAdorable Midori. Again, Female Corrin is included. |
| 617 | ** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', Dimitri and female Byleth, if paired. Byleth stands at 5'4 while post-time skip, Dimitri has gained more muscle and several inches to reach 6'2. At one point, he even comments on how tiny Byleth's hands are. |
| 618 | *** Dedue is 208 cm tall, making him the tallest character with a defined height. As a result, all of his paired endings with women are this by default, including with the not exactly short Mercedes and Shamir (who are both 169 cm). |
| 619 | * ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'' had the art style featuring enormous men and petite women, especially evident when Marcus and Anya are next to each other. At one point Marcus even removes his armor and still has about three times her mass. |
| 620 | * In ''Videogame/GodOfWarRagnarok'' Sif would be a StatuesqueStunner by most standards considering that she's of roughly equal height to Kratos, but her husband Thor is at least seven feet tall and twice as broad as her. |
| 621 | * ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'': |
| 622 | ** Our main pair is Master Chief and Cortana. The former is a 7' (2.1m) tall super-soldier, and the other is a holographic display usually a mere 6" (15cm) or so, when she's not a ''two''-inch (5cm) chip inserted into his helmet. |
| 623 | ** [[Literature/TheForerunnerSaga Bornstellar's]] unnamed parents definitely qualify. His father is four meters (13 feet) tall; his mother is only two (6'7). |
| 624 | ** The Didact and his wife the Librarian are a downplayed example. The former is 3.5 meters (11'6) with the bulk to match, and the other is "only" 2.9 meters (9'6) and quite slender. |
| 625 | * [[PhysicalGod Ignis the Harvest King]] from ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonAnimalParade'' is a potential [[SecretCharacter hidden suitor]] to the much-shorter female protagonist. |
| 626 | * Seen occasionally in the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series: |
| 627 | ** In ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2'', Roxas and Xion are around the same height, but their friend and mentor Axel borders on the height of the two stacked on top of each other. This may or may not be romantic depending on how you ship them (all shipping combinations of the three have been seen). |
| 628 | ** And in an example that both inverts this AND plays it straight, the ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'' trio has a huge guy ([[MightyGlacier Terra]]), a medium girl ([[MagicKnight Aqua]]), and a really tiny guy ([[FragileSpeedster Ven]]). |
| 629 | ** In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', Kairi and Riku in Xehanort's Heartless form, because she's ''tiny'' when she's standing next to him. |
| 630 | ** ''Chain of Memories'' gives us a [[HeterosexualLifePartners non-romantic]] (or [[HoYay romantic]], if you ship that way) example with Lexaeus and Zexion. Lexaeus is easily the largest humanoid character in the series, while Zexion is only slightly taller than the teenage characters. |
| 631 | ** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' has Lea (Axel's reformed original self) with Kairi, who's only a little bit taller compared to the roughly a year or two younger (at least physically) Xion. |
| 632 | * ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand'': The rulers of the animal kingdom, Leongar and Clawroline, are a huge lion and tiny leopardess. Compared to the rest of the Beast Pack bosses, Clawroline is rather small compared to the likes of Leongar, Gorimondo and Sillydillo. |
| 633 | * ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'': Mission Vao and Zaalbar. A petite Twi'lek teenage girl and a ''HUGE'' adolescent Wookiee (taking him to Kashyyyk, he towers over the other Wookiees in height and bulk). They act LikeBrotherAndSister. As Zaalbar is painfully shy and can't speak Basic, he lets Mission do the talking. And while Mission is no stranger to a fight, she's a GlassCannon FragileSpeedster. Zaalbar is a very good StoneWall tank who can help his Twi'lek buddy out of physical force is needed. |
| 634 | * ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': |
| 635 | ** Link and Midna from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess''. Midna is a tiny imp while Link is a short-to-medium-sized Hylian. |
| 636 | ** Yeto and Yeta, also from ''Twilight Princess''. They're yetis, so perhaps it's justified as being an aspect of their species - but then again, Yeto is over ''twice'' the size of Yeta... |
| 637 | ** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' has a brother/sister example with Sidon and Mipha of the [[FishPeople Zora]]. Sidon is several heads taller than the average Zora, who are already twice as tall as the average Hylian such as Link, whereas Mipha is a head shorter than Link (though it's faintly implied that she had yet to reach her full adult height). They also have a SiblingYinYang dynamic that matches their respective sizes: Sidon is energetic and sociable, while Mipha is quiet and demure. |
| 638 | ** ''Breath of the Wild'' also gives a parental example in the form of King Rhoam and Princess Zelda. Zelda's about the average height, slightly shorter than Link. Rhoam, meanwhile, has ''the'' largest male Hylian body in the entire game, and towers quite imposingly over her. |
| 639 | * Not as extreme an example as some, but [[spoiler:[[BetaCouple Garrus and Tali]]]] in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3''. One is noticeably taller and bulkier than a human, the other is about the height of a human when standing on the balls of her feet, and quite thin [[HartmanHips everywhere except the hips]]. |
| 640 | ** Due to limitations, game graphics weren't able to show the actual size of Turians, but if Garrus' scale figure is anything to go by he's about 7 feet tall, which would most definitely give him this dynamic with female Shepard (herself only about 5'3", making her even smaller than Tali) who can romance him as well. |
| 641 | ** In the [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 second game]], you have the option of repairing the relationship between a [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy krogan]] and an [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe asari]]. |
| 642 | * A mild case in ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 3|SnakeEater}}'', where it's, uh, [[PsychoElectro Huge Guy]], [[{{Bishonen}} Tiny Bishounen]]. Although Raikov is supposed to be the same height and shape as 6'4 Naked Snake (hence why his uniform had to be used), Volgin (6'7) is ''enormous''. |
| 643 | * ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' has an inhuman example. The Ludroth are alligator creatures roughly 50% longer than your hunter is tall. All of these are female. The boys - the Royal Ludroth - are four to five times the size of your hunter character. This would be seen as HotSkittyOnWailordAction if they weren't the same species. |
| 644 | * One of the newcomers for ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' is a pair named Ferra/Torr. A hulking man with a teeny tiny woman riding on his shoulders. |
| 645 | ** Their arcade ending reveals that [[spoiler: that Ferra and Torr are actually a symbiotic pair, with Torr requiring Ferra to live as part of their bond as warrior and rider. However, when the Great Metamorphosis hits Ferra, she is practically forced to abandon Torr to die while she undergoes a painful three-year-long transformation that turns her into a large, hulking version of herself. An inversion of the trope happens when a small male is chosen to be her rider.]] |
| 646 | * ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'' has a do-it-yourself example. Neither Casavir nor Gannanyev discriminate by race and are perfectly willing to romance a female Halfling PC. |
| 647 | * ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'': |
| 648 | ** In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', there is Kanji (6'1), the tallest member of the Investigation Team, and [[ItWasHisSled Nao]][[SamusIsAGirl to (5'0)]], the shortest. |
| 649 | ** [[{{Hikkikomori}} Futaba Sakura (5'0)]], who eventually replaces Morgana (2') as your MissionControl in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'', is not only the youngest member of the Phantom Thieves, but she's also the shortest by a significant margin (excepting Morgana, an [[{{Mascot}} anthropomorphic cat]]). As shown in certain scenes (such as her spending time with the protagonist if you romance her, or when she's talking with Yusuke (5'11) at the beach), she barely grazes their chests, though this is the result of slightly exaggerated models -- going by the actual heights provided for each character, Futaba would hit around chin-height on the protagonist and would come up to Yusuke's shoulders. |
| 650 | * ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' have a fairly extreme and strictly platonic example. [[spoiler: The immortal King AZ is at least ten feet tall. His dear Floette, who was also made immortal, is an eight-inch Fairy-type Pokémon.]] |
| 651 | * In ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' on UsefulNotes/{{Wii}}, Super Macho Man's opening montage shows him with a series of girlfriends, each one about half his size. |
| 652 | * ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'': |
| 653 | ** Chris (6'1) and Sheva (5'5) in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5''. Chris is only [[OneHeadTaller about a head taller]], but he's quite a bit bulkier. |
| 654 | ** Ex-marine Billy Coen (5'11) is nearly as burly as Chris, and ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil0'' sets him as a partner to tiny eighteen-year-old rookie S.T.A.R.S. [[TheMedic Medic]] Rebecca Chambers (5'3). |
| 655 | ** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' takes it even further by partnering Jake Muller (6'4), possibly the biggest [=RE=] guy yet, with ''tiny'' Sherry Birkin (5'4). This is actually reflected in the gameplay: when climbing up an obstacle, Chris and Leon (5'11) typically boost their slightly smaller partner (5'10 Piers and 5'7 Helena respectively) up, who then help them up from above. Sherry, however, simply ''cannot'' pull Jake, who's easily twice her weight, up, meaning they have to find another way there for him. |
| 656 | * ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'': |
| 657 | ** In ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'', Brotherhood leader Maero towers over everyone he meets, including his girlfriend Jessica. |
| 658 | ** [[HuskyRusskie Oleg Kirrlov]] in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'' admits to having a crush on tiny, mousy [[TheCracker hacker]] Kinzie Kensington towards the end of the game. The attraction largely stems from the fact that he's a GeniusBruiser and [[PairTheSmartOnes she's his intellectual equal]]. |
| 659 | * Jim Raynor and Sarah Kerrigan, in the ''VideoGame/StarCraft'' series, especially when he wears the Marine {{PoweredArmor}} and she dons the Ghost {{SpyCatsuit}}. Jim has to bow down to kiss Sarah. |
| 660 | * ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' has both Birdie (7'1) and Ibuki (5'2) as part of Karin's (5'3) squad. Birdie literally is taller sitting down than she is standing up and is easily 4 times heavier. |
| 661 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXSququ69Mg Rufus (6'5) and his girlfriend]] in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV''. What makes it funnier is that Candy is actually pretty tall compared to some of the other characters, but Rufus practically dwarfs her. |
| 662 | *** Before that, Hugo (7'10) and Poison (5'10). Even if Poison is a trans woman, she still counts. |
| 663 | *** Sakura Kasugano (5'2) and Ryu (5'9). Sakura [[OlderThanTheyLook still looks like a teenager despite being at least 20]] and her fangirly thoughts on Ryu are strongly implied to have turned into an intense yet {{unrequited love}}, whereas he looks quite older than in other games and remains a CelibateHero. It ''shows'' in the ''Ties that Bind'' OAV: in the scene where [[spoiler: she gives him a desperate CooldownHug to bring him back to sanity after he's taken over by the Satsui no Hado]], Sakura looks ''tiny'' compared to Ryu. |
| 664 | ** Sakura teamed up with ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk in ''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroesVsStreetFighter''. |
| 665 | * Sanger Zonvolt and Irui Ganedan from the ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha'' games. [[ShipTease May or may not be romantic]]. Notable in that while Irui shares a similar relationship with the other main characters in their stories, it's Sanger/Irui that gets all the fanart. |
| 666 | ** Judging from the ending of ''Original Generation Gaiden'' (and the sequel to ''VideoGame/EndlessFrontier''), it looks like Axel Almer and Alfimi is going on this way as well. |
| 667 | ** Also, Kazuma Ardygun and his little sister/copilot Mihiro in ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsW W]]''. |
| 668 | ** And then ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsZ'' gives us the pair Rand Travis and Mel Peter, which plays this trope straight. |
| 669 | ** Tasuku and Leona from ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration Original Generation]]'' series... mecha-wise, anyway. Tasuku's Giganscudo is positively ''gargantuan'' in comparison to Leona's Guarlion Custom and eventual signature Siegerlion. Otherwise, their (personal) height difference is minimal. |
| 670 | * ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'': |
| 671 | ** A nonromantic example with Regal and Presea (4'6). |
| 672 | ** There's the canonically romantic example of Regal and [[spoiler: Presea's sister,]] Alicia. [[spoiler:Tragically inverted when Alicia's exsphere [[PainfulTransformation transformed her into a monster]] and she begged him to [[MercyKill put an end to her]] before she loses her mind and murders him. Her [[BodyHorror Exbelua form]] towers over the 189cm (6'2)-tall Regal.]] |
| 673 | * ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' has [[PluckyOfficeGirl Miss Pauling]], the mercenaries' link between MissionControl and the field. She spends a lot of time in the comics talking to Demoman, Soldier, and Heavy, all of whom are much taller and more buff than she is. Soldier and Heavy in particular have been seen acting very protective of her: In the comic ''Shadow Boxers'', Soldier is concerned when he thinks his cardboard costume scared Miss Pauling, and Heavy decided to come on a mission with the two of them, just because Miss Pauling was going. |
| 674 | * Rick and Lori from ''VideoGame/UnboundSaga'', in that order. He's at least a head taller and five times larger than her. |
| 675 | * The [[BizarreSexualDimorphism more dimorphic races]] in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', especially draenei and trolls. However, both of these are slightly unusual cases: With draenei, both sexes are [[http://i35.tinypic.com/19tszt.jpg approximately the same height]], and it's almost ''entirely'' a matter of the fellas being several times wider. With trolls, both sexes are long and lean... but not only are females lean''er'', but males would be ''more'' than OneHeadTaller if they didn't slouch. |
| 676 | ** During the Thaldraszus storyline, bronze Dragon Aspect Nozdormu and his consort Soridormi are briefly seen standing next to each other in elf form; she barely reaches his shoulders and is about half as wide. While "boss" [=NPC=]s such as Nozdormu ''are'' typically given bigger models just to make them easier to see in-game, the Aspects are frequently shown to be much, ''much'' bigger than ordinary dragons, so this is likely intended to be a genuine size difference and not just a matter of game mechanics. |
| 677 | * In ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'', while they're both the most physically powerful of their respective sides, [[TheBigGuy Lanz]] and [[PintSizedPowerhouse Sena]] form this dynamic as an Ouroboros pairing. They initially bonded over their shared love of muscle training, though, while Lanz is musclebound enough to show it, Sena is significantly shorter than him and very slender in frame. That said, Lanz believes Sena to be stronger than him, by virtue of the fact that she could wield her [[CarryABigStick hammer]] unaided, while he struggled under it even with the assistance of his power frame. |
| 678 | [[/folder]] |
| 679 | |
| 680 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 681 | * The third ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' game features a humongous prison convict who talks in HulkSpeak and ''chews on his ball and chain'' at certain points, dating a very fragile-looking girl. ([[BitchInSheepsClothing Not as fragile as she looks, though.]]) |
| 682 | * In ''VisualNovel/CafeEnchante'', out of the regulars, Canus is easily the tallest and [=CGs=] show that Kotone barely makes it up to his shoulders. |
| 683 | * ''Franchise/FateSeries'': |
| 684 | ** Non-romantic example: From ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', [[FilleFatale Ilyasviel "Ilya" von Einzbern (4'4")]] and her enormous Servant, Berserker (8'4"). Also, according to time-skip epilogues [[spoiler:and using Archer (6'2") as obvious evidence]], at his adult height, Shirou (5'6") will tower over the main heroines, especially 5'1" Saber (who's the shortest Servant by a full head at least). |
| 685 | ** Archer and Rin (5'2") works with this as well, for he's about a foot (30 cm) taller than she is and 68 lb. (31 kg) heavier. |
| 686 | ** Bypassing gender, we've also got ''Literature/FateZero'''s OddCouple [[http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Image:FZ_v03_00o.jpg Alexander the Great (6'11") and Waver Velvet (5'2")]] stretching this about as far as adult human proportions can go, with Alex having about two feet (55 cm, to be exact) and 80 kg (176 lbs.) on Waver. |
| 687 | ** Ironically, Waver winds up on the other side of this trope after a [[IGotBigger belated but very dramatic growth spurt]] between ''Literature/FateZero'' and ''Literature/LordElMelloiIICaseFiles'' that puts him at 186 cm (6'1")--a full head and shoulders over his 154 cm (5'0") apprentice, Gray. |
| 688 | ** ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' offer several examples: |
| 689 | *** Asterios is 298 cm (9'9⅓") who's also a mass of muscle outright called a {{Hunk}} compared to Euryale's outright tiny 134 cm (4'4¾"). She's small enough the narration describes him as being able to let her ride on his shoulder. |
| 690 | *** It turns out Orion and Artemis had this dynamic in life. While Artemis is a fairly short 165 cm (5'5"), Orion towers over her at 230 cm (7'6½"). His arms are also many times thicker than hers, [[MusclesAreMeaningless but there's no question who's the stronger of the two of them]]. |
| 691 | * In the ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'' fandom, GentleGiant Masato and TokenMiniMoe Kud are commonly put together in fanart (almost always non-romantically), though apart from Kud's route being the branching point for Masato's joke ending miniroute Muscle Sensation, they don't interact too much in canon. The anime [[{{Fanservice}} plays to this]] by having Kud on Masato's shoulders, both of them cheering, in the second season ending sequence. |
| 692 | * ''VisualNovel/NanatsuiroDrops'' has tall Haru and short Sumomo. |
| 693 | * The PlayerCharacter from ''VisualNovel/ShallWeDateNinjaShadow'' is a rather short {{bifauxnen}}, so ''all'' of her prospect hook-ups will involve her romancing guys quite taller than she is. It even gets lampshaded several times. |
| 694 | * ''VisualNovel/SweetFuseAtYourSide'': |
| 695 | ** Saki, the high school student protagonist can be this when paired with the hulking escort, Mitarashi, or the tallest character, fortune teller Urabe. |
| 696 | ** Also has some non-romantic instances when [[spoiler:Shirabe's tiny daughter Mai]] shows up and takes a liking to Mitarashi. |
| 697 | [[/folder]] |
| 698 | |
| 699 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 700 | * ''WebAnimation/EpithetErased'' has another platonic example: Mera is described in her character bio as "tiny" while her [[MinionWithAnFInEvil partner-in-crime Indus]] is nearly twice her height, towering over most of the cast -- and [[TopHeavyGuy wider than she is tall]], too. |
| 701 | * ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'' gives us a platonic example with Alastor and Niffty. Alastor is roughly seven feet tall; Niffty's head barely comes up to his waist. |
| 702 | * Although it's mostly in the background, ''WebAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsDigitalSeries'' regularly depicts big bodybuilder Bulk Biceps and petite girl Derpy Hooves as a couple. |
| 703 | [[/folder]] |
| 704 | |
| 705 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 706 | * ''Webcomic/{{Alfie|2010}}'' is a Fantasy Webcomic set in a world filled with various "demihuman" races, so given that the title character and her mother Vera belong to [[{{Halfling}} a populace that rarely cracks four feet in height]] any [[PornWithPlot *ahem*]] "involvement" they have with non-Halfling men qualifies as this (even the undersized-for-a-human [[OurElvesAreDifferent elf]] Ailduin looms over Vera when standing up). [[spoiler:The budding relationship between Hana (rather lanky human female) and the [[OurOrcsAreDifferent "Green Man"]] Grasha also qualifies.]] |
| 707 | * Murray and Camille, the OfficialCouple of ''Webcomic/BloodyUrban''. Murray is the tallest character in the series. Camille barely reaches his chest. |
| 708 | * In ''Webcomic/CatanaComics'', Catana's boyfriend John is much taller than her, and several comics have her either standing on tiptoe to kiss him or compensating in other ways, such as standing on a stack of books. |
| 709 | * ''Webcomic/{{Chirault}}''. Kiran is average-sized, but his MoralityPet Teeko is a young girl--and she's been shrunk to a few inches in height by a stray magic spell. |
| 710 | * The OfficialCouple of ''Webcomic/{{Crankrats}}'': Jack is [=6'7''=] (or [[FlipFlopOfGod thereabouts]]) and Maddy is [=5'5''=]. This has to do with Jack being ethnically Altavian and Maddy being a Bantarian, since pretty much all adult Altavians tower over almost all Bantarians. |
| 711 | * While Reinhold in ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'' isn't exactly ''huge'' for a human knight, Kiya is probably one of the lightest orcs ever seen. |
| 712 | * Sha'shiva from ''Webcomic/{{EATATAU}}'' has an extreme fetish for guys who are much bigger than she is. |
| 713 | * Justified in ''Webcomic/EnnuiGo'' with Hashim and Sarah, as the latter has dwarfism. Also doubles as a case of GenerationXerox, [[https://ennuigo.thecomicseries.com/comics/1127/ as Sarah inherited it from her mother and her father appears to have gigantism]]. |
| 714 | * Played platonically and taken to extremes in ''Webcomic/TheFriendlyWinter''. Min-Seong is an above-average height seventeen-year-old while Da-Jeong is a really short nineteen-year-old due to having a disorder that left her looking permanently like [[OlderThanTheyLook a little kid]]. |
| 715 | * ''Webcomic/{{Frivolesque}}'': Saki and Conroy do mercenary work as a team. While not that tiny, Saki is a petite samurai girl, while Conroy, a 6'7" giant of a man, towers over her. |
| 716 | * The Girl and The Fed in ''Webcomic/AGirlAndHerFed''. The tall, bulky Fed is initially afraid he might hurt the diminutive girl in a fit of anger...but she can actually beat him up. |
| 717 | * Appears in flashback in ''WebComic/GirlGenius'': Klaus is [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20041208 considerably bigger]] than Lucrezia. But then he is (possibly) a construct made of three people. |
| 718 | * A (presumably) Non-romantic example in ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}: Life through their Eyes'' with an [[https://www.goblinscomic.org/comic/03152009/ Ogre and a Kobold.]] |
| 719 | * ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'': Eglamore and Jones. (Now officially confirmed to be romantically involved.) It's explicitly stated that Miss Jones is [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=377 the scary one of the pair]]. Later it's confirmed, in that concrete crumbled like a cake under her fingers. She's [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld the oldest living thing on earth.]] |
| 720 | * Both the Kings and Queens of ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' gain power and change shape as players join their game. But while the Queens retain their more or less human height, the Kings grow with each change until they're mountain-crushing colossi. |
| 721 | ** It is very surprising to see CheerfulChild Nepeta and CulturedBadass Equius standing together, [[http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004441 exactly the same height]], given the stereotypes that they represent, although it really should be expected since they are [[PaletteSwap all based on the same sprite]] and are all 6 sweeps (13 years) old. |
| 722 | * [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Rocko]] & [[CuteMonsterGirl Molly]], for the brief time that they were sort-of-together, in ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresofBob.'' He later winds up with Moé the ninja girl, who is likewise much smaller than him. |
| 723 | * ''Webcomic/{{Insecticomics}}'': |
| 724 | ** Lasorbeak, Kickback, and Thrust have all dated/slept with Tidal Wave, who is the size of a battleship. Probably best not to think about how this works. |
| 725 | ** Also Energon Megatron and Starscream, who got married right before Megatron abdicated his position as leader and took Starscream to parts unknown. Starscream was small enough to fit on his shoulder. |
| 726 | * {{Invoked}} by [[http://www.shiftylook.com/comics/katamari/tough-cousins Macho and Ichigo's]] introduction in the ''Webcomic/{{Katamari}}'' webcomic. Using YourSizeMayVary, she becomes tiny enough to jump all over her GentleGiant cousin, finally settling down on top of his head. |
| 727 | * ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell''. Odder still: [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction Kevin's a rabbit and]] [[CarnivoreConfusion Kell is a wolf]]. Oh, and he's still the huge guy. Not sure if they've ever explained how that works. |
| 728 | * Viktor Vasko and Ivy Pepper in ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}''. Viktor is over six feet tall, hulking, middle-aged, and a former rum runner-turned-bartender. Ivy is a young, flirty college student and flapper- and one of the few characters in the comic that doesn't seem intimidated by Viktor. When asked if they could ever be romantically involved, [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=337 Ivy denies the possibility]]. |
| 729 | * ''Webcomic/LittleTales'': Uriel has about two heads height on his wife Gen, [[http://www.little-tales.com/index.php?Strip=70 as seen here]]. |
| 730 | * ''Webcomic/ManalaNextDoor'': Jacob is big enough to carry his girlfriend Nini on his shoulders. |
| 731 | * The author of ''Webcomic/{{Miamaska}}'' was dismayed to hear that this trope existed. According to his Tumblr, he specifically gave the characters Amity and Trosce a huge difference in both size and age as a shipping ''deterrent'' (he intended to give them a LikeBrotherAndSister relationship later on). A friend had to warn him later that many fans actually find a height difference incredibly cute, but by then it was too late. |
| 732 | * ''Webcomic/MissMelee'': [[https://miss-melee.com/comic/7-6/ Night Lion and Lotus Lynx.]] |
| 733 | * ''Webcomic/TheMonsterAndTheGirl'': Kenrick-the-Monster is described as 2.27 metres (7'7" tall), Mayu (the Girl) is [[http://themonsterandthegirl.thecomicseries.com/comics/7/ child-sized by comparison]]. If not for her big hair and high heels, she'd be barely half his height. |
| 734 | * ''{{Webcomic/Morphe}}'' has one of the guards of the manor, Malloy, protecting his fellow Mastigos Asia Ellis. Asia's sprite goes about 3/5's of the way to the top of the frame. Malloy's is too big and his hair is out of frame. |
| 735 | * ''Webcomic/MyGiantNerdBoyfriend'' is based entirely around this trope. The author/artist fishball is a Malaysian woman who stands at 158 cm (5'2"), while her boyfriend the comic is based on is 199 cm (6'6"). The strip is basically just about the funny and/or touching moments on account of their size difference. |
| 736 | * Half-averted in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': Celia should be small according to the monster manual, but she isn't drawn that way. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0617.html at one point.]] |
| 737 | * Richard Olsen and Sophie in ''Webcomic/TheOverture''. Richard towers over most adults and he's still growing. With hair extensions, Sophie barely reaches his stomach. |
| 738 | * ''Webcomic/PixieAndBrutus'': Brutus is a large, athletic German Shepherd (a breed which can get to be up to 80 pounds as adults), and his little sister Pixie is a tiny kitten who can't weigh more than a few pounds. The size difference forms the humor in several of the strips - including their introduction, when he observes that he has to protect her from basically anything larger than a squirrel. |
| 739 | * Annie Chang and Thomas Kensington in ''Webcomic/{{Pulse}}''. SuperheroSchool student, PoweredArmor wearing Annie is 5' 3"- her non-super-powered love interest, metalworker Thomas is 6'. |
| 740 | * [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2154 This]] unnamed US Air Force lieutenant from the space station arc of ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' says that she prefers men who are big enough to be able to bench press her one-handed. |
| 741 | * In ''WebComic/SabrinaOnline'' purebred wolves tend to be tall enough for their heads to be obscured by the panel border, Thomas is the exception as his mother is a fox thus putting his parents under this trope. Carli the chinchilla and her wolf husband form a more drastic example. |
| 742 | * ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' has two notable examples. Corporal Burt "Nick" Nicholson and his girlfriend Liz, both human but Nick is at least a foot taller and three times wider as seen [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-06-25 here]]. The second is a non-romantic example between Captain Sorlie and Captain Landon seen [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-03-21 here]] and [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2018-10-24 here]]. In this case more justified since Landon is a genetically uplifted polar bear and they really are massive in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_bear real life]]. |
| 743 | * ''Webcomic/SilverBulletNights'' features a same-sex version of this. Seek is massive whereas his partner Donovan barely comes to his chin. |
| 744 | * Vinnie and Jordan from ''{{Webcomic/Skins}}''. He’s about 7 ft tall and she barely reaches his chest. How they have sex is anyone’s guess. |
| 745 | * ''Webcomic/{{Sunbird}}'': Andraz is well over six feet tall. Salva is [[PintSizedPowerhouse five foot nothing]]. They're married. |
| 746 | * ''Webcomic/TiffanyAndCorey'': Parodied [[http://tiffanyandcorey.blogspot.com/2018/12/big-date.html here where Tiffany dates]] a giant who says he lives [[Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk up a beanstalk]]. |
| 747 | * ''Webcomic/TryingHuman'': Both [=EBE1=] and Hue are roughly two feet taller than their human love interests. |
| 748 | * ''Webcomic/VioletGoesToTheBeach'': Exaggerated example, Harley is a well above-average height man while Violet is small enough to fit in his shirt pocket. |
| 749 | * ''Webcomic/WapsiSquare'''s Monica, the 5'-tall (152cm) main character, suffers from this with every guy in her life -- except [[TinyGuyHugeGirl Tepoztecal]]. |
| 750 | [[/folder]] |
| 751 | |
| 752 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 753 | * ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'' has goliath barbarian Grog Strongjaw and gnome cleric Pike Trickfoot, best friends who grew up together. |
| 754 | ** Campaign 2 also gives us Fjord Stone (6'1) and Jester Lavorre (5'3), played by real life couple ''and example'' Creator/TravisWillingham (6'4) and Creator/LauraBailey (5'4). Non-romantically, there's also Caleb Widogast (5'10) and his best friend Nott the Brave (3'), as well as his close friend Beauregard Lionett (never confirmed, but art generally shows her around the same height as Jester), and his ex-lover Astrid (stated to be Jester's height). |
| 755 | * While not a couple, this is the WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic and WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick: Doug is 6'0, Lindsay is 5'2. Especially noticeable in the ''[[WesternAnimation/FernGullyTheLastRainforest FernGully]]'' review where they're fighting; while the Chick moves around a lot, the Critic never gets up from his chair. |
| 756 | * ''WebVideo/OutsideXbox'' has a sister channel, Outside Xtra, with female host Ellen Rose small enough to fit in a poster bag and male host Luke Westaway at least a foot taller than she is. |
| 757 | * In ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'', when everyone is revealed in their costumes, ''everyone'' dwarfs Lindsay. |
| 758 | * Norse and Elly of ''WebOriginal/TheTournamentOfRings'' are 10'5" and 4'2" respectively. |
| 759 | [[/folder]] |
| 760 | |
| 761 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 762 | * In the not-quite-romantic vein, there's ''WesternAnimation/ActionMan2000'' with Alex Mann and Fidget Wilson. Fidget's canonical height was 4'11", all the better for Alex Mann to pick up and carry around. |
| 763 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' has Gumball's parents: Richard (a big, fat pink rabbit) and Nicole (a significantly smaller blue cat). Nicole isn't particularly short, but next to her husband (who's bigger than the whole rest of the family put together), she definitely looks it. |
| 764 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' has the 20-foot-tall newt King Andrias and his sidekick [[spoiler:13-year-old human girl Marcy Wu.]] |
| 765 | * Thor (6'6) and Jane (5'7) in ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes''. |
| 766 | * On ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold,'' [[MixAndMatchCritters B'wana Beast (6'6)]] is about a foot and a half taller and three times as wide as his girlfriend, [[AllYourPowersCombined Vixen (5'9)]]. |
| 767 | * WesternAnimation/DaveTheBarbarian and his sister [[HeroicComedicSociopath Fang.]] She's a [[{{Pun}} ''little'']] bit [[BerserkButton tense about her size]]. Though really, even average-height sister Candy looks puny next to him. |
| 768 | * Common in the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse, partially due to the art style which tends toward slim women and heavily-built men: |
| 769 | ** Franchise/GreenLantern (6'1) and Hawkgirl (5'4). |
| 770 | ** From ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': [[http://www.worldsfinestonline.com/WF/batman/tnba/bios/babydoll/08.jpg Baby Doll and Killer Croc (6'5)]]. She's really [[OlderThanTheyLook an adult]], but that's still a ''serious'' CrackPairing. |
| 771 | ** Onyx (5'8) and Puff, from ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock''. |
| 772 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' episode "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E12TopDuck Top Duck]]", Launchpad's father Ripcord is bigger and more muscular than his son, whereas Launchpad's mother Birdy is only half his height. |
| 773 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' Jorgen Von Strangle and the Tooth Fairy, despite the Tooth Fairy being significantly taller than most of the other fairies. |
| 774 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': |
| 775 | ** Goliath and Demona, before Demona turned evil and stuff. Later, Goliath and Elisa Maza, a human, which is more BeastAndBeauty, but the brief moments in the episode "The Mirror" when both had been the same species (both ways, even) showed the trope prove true. And then Broadway with Angela. |
| 776 | ** The size difference between Oberon and Titania is less extreme but noticeable enough to count as well. |
| 777 | * ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' has a non-romantic one in Tohru and Jade (who can climb Tohru). |
| 778 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', Tonraq dwarfs both his wife Senna, and his daughter, the titular Avatar Korra. In fact, he's hands-down ''the'' [[TheBigGuy tallest and most massive of the six leaders of the world's nations]]. Just about any woman he stands next to looks tiny in comparison. |
| 779 | * [[CanisMajor Timber Wolf]] and [[LittleMissSnarker Phantom Girl]] have this dynamic in the ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes2006'' (not counting when Timber Wolf transforms into his [[SuperpoweredEvilSide monster form]] where his height nearly doubles), it's more noticeable in Season 2 with Timber Wolf being well over 6' tall and Phantom Girl being around 5'4" or 5'5". |
| 780 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfVoxMachina'' features Pike Trickfot the gnome cleric and Grog Strongjaw as the goliath barbarian as best friends who grew up together. Pike is also one of the only ones who will keep up with Grog in the drinking department. |
| 781 | * ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': |
| 782 | ** Marinette's parents. Tom (6'3) is tall and very broad-shouldered, while Sabine (4'7) is a small Chinese woman, not even as tall as her daughter. |
| 783 | ** Ivan and Mylène. Ivan's the tallest guy in the class and quite bulky too; he could almost pass for an adult. Mylène, though on the chubby side, is quite short. |
| 784 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyAdventuresWithSuperman'': Superman and Lois Lane always have a noticeable size difference, but it's particularly pronounced in this version: she barely reaches his shoulders and is less than half as broad. |
| 785 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': |
| 786 | ** Big Macintosh is about a full head taller than Cheerilee and twice her build, which is obvious when the Cutie Mark Crusaders [[ShipperOnDeck try to pair them up]]. Though this is all down to Mac being large, as Cheerilee is exactly the same stature as >90% of other mares. His eventual girlfriend, Sugar Belle, also falls into this trope. |
| 787 | ** Also, Cup and Carrot Cake both have unique bodies, her being chubby but no shorter than most mares while he is very tall and thin. |
| 788 | ** Fluttershy is the same stature as the rest of the Mane Six (who are all adult mares), while her friend (and possible love interest) [[EldritchAbomination Discord]] towers any pony and most part of the non-ponies, with a few exceptions. To give him a hug, Fluttershy has to fly into his arms. |
| 789 | ** While not remarkably huge, Twilight Sparkle's older brother Shining Armor is noticeably taller and beefier than his wife, Cadance. What makes it particularly notable is the fact that Cadance is an Alicorn, a kind of pony royalty that normally towers over normal Unicorns, Pegasi, and Earth Ponies. |
| 790 | * In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', Mikey and Spinelli become a platonic example when they're paired up for a dance recital. |
| 791 | * ''WesternAnimation/RobotechTheShadowChronicles'' has Vince and Jean Grant, Bowie's parents and characters exclusive to the ''{{Anime/Robotech}}'' continuity. |
| 792 | * In the 2018 reboot of ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'', Hordak towers over Entrapta (his collaborator on technological projects, friend, and eventual love interest). The top of her head only reaches the middle of his chest, but she is shorter even than the average Etherians. She compensates by lifting up on her PrehensileHair. |
| 793 | * Eclipsa's monster lover from ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' is so big that compared to Eclipsa that she can easily sit on his arms and still wouldn't even be one-fourth the size of the monster. |
| 794 | * ''WesternAnimation/TazMania'' has Bushwacker Bob, Taz's temperamental boss of Hotel Tasmania, who is a big man. His mother, Mum, is a MiniatureSeniorCitizen. |
| 795 | * ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' had a platonic example in Kole (5'6) and G'Nark. |
| 796 | * On ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'', Babs has a mom of reasonable size and a ridiculously gigantic dad. Then again, that might be merely Buster's nervous perspective: He expects to date Babs, and her dad appears to be full of rage at the prospect. |
| 797 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' |
| 798 | ** [[{{Geek}} Beth]] (the shortest of the original 22 contestants) and [[NotSoImaginaryFriend Brady]]. She also had a brief crush on [[{{Otaku}} Harold]], who's about twice her height. |
| 799 | ** Owen and Izzy. While Izzy isn't ''tiny'', she is certainly dwarfed in size by her 300-pound boyfriend. |
| 800 | ** Platonic example with [[TheSilentBob B]] (who is easily the broadest and heaviest of all the second generation contestants) and [[VoiceForTheVoiceless Dawn]] (who is the smallest of the second generation females). |
| 801 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace'' has the Daters, a.k.a Ryan and Stephanie. Her entire body could fit in one of his arms! |
| 802 | ** In the 2023 reboot's second season, short eccentric Priya starts a ShipTease with hunky soft spoken Caleb. |
| 803 | * ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'' has a platonic variant. "Team Punk" has BigGuy Hunk with the very short Pidge. |
| 804 | ** Zarkon and Haggar. She barely reaches his chest, even back when they were younger and she didn't slouch. |
| 805 | * ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' has Lance Alvers (Avalanche) and Kitty Pryde (Shadowcat) as a Main/DatingCatwoman example. |
| 806 | * Mal Duncan (6'1) and Karen Beecher (5'7) in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010''. Exacerbated by the fact that their superhero identities, Guardian and Bumblebee, are a hulking BadassNormal in armor and a yellow-and-black-garbed ''IncredibleShrinkingMan''. |
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