Line #118 Main/HugeRiderTinyMount


1	[[quoteright:290:[[Webcomic/AwkwardZombie https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/big_riders_small_mounts_8775.png]]]]
2	[[caption-width-right:290:Not from an episode of ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken''.]]
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4	->[The planet Vogsphere had] "''... elegant gazellelike creatures with silken coats and dewey eyes which the Vogons would catch and sit on. They were no use as transport because their backs would snap instantly, but the Vogons sat on them anyways.''"
5	-->-- ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1''
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7	Quite simply, this is the instance of a very large rider riding on a very small animal. It's often spotted in {{comed\|yTropes}}ies as a way of providing comic relief if the rider is too intimidating to suit the tone of the story. The implications of this situation are very rarely discussed; as far as anyone will see, [[AutomatonHorses the mount will never tire out from carrying such a heavy weight or appear harmed in any way.]]
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9	A variation is to have the person riding a tiny vehicle instead.
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12	!!Examples:
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17	* During UsefulNotes/SuperBowl 50, there was a commercial that was advertising the website, Wix, but at the same time promoting the movie, ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3''. In the commercial, Po tries to advertise his dad's business by attempting to make catchy commercials for it. In one of his attempts, he speaks to the audience while [[Advertising/TheManYourManCouldSmellLike on (a) Tigress]]. Of course, after he finishes his little speech, Tigress angrily bucks him off and pounces on him.
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21	* In ''Anime/TransformersCybertron'', this happens with two Decepticons named Ransack and Crumplezone - Crumplezone winds up riding vehicle-mode Ransack even though 1. both turn into motorcycle-like vehicles and 2. Crumplezone is built like a gorilla and about eight times bigger.
22	* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'':
23	** Gone to ridiculous lengths in an episode of the anime, where the cast had to race on Pokémon provided to them. Most absurd examples are Ash hopping on a little Spoink, Jessie getting pulled by a Magikarp on the water, and what can best be described as RecurringCharacter Conway being dragged on the ground by a Dugtrio.
24	** In the episode, "Clefairy and the Moon Stone", Pikachu manages to pick up a Clefairy, a Pokémon who is larger and heavier than him.
25	** In "The Flame Pokemon-athon", one trainer in the race has a ''Raticate'' mount. A Raticate a bit bigger than normal, but it is a visibly tiny ride compared to everyone else.
26	%%* The FreakyFriday episode of ''Manga/{{Beelzebub}}''. (What about it?)
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30	* Early works of art, like Art/TheBayeuxTapestry, depict warriors riding into battle on horses so small that the riders' feet appear to barely skim the ground. Some historians theorize that European horses were historically much smaller than they are today and that they were selectively bred to be larger and stronger as knights wore heavier and heavier suits of armor.
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34	* One of ComicBook/SheHulk's fourth-wall straining sequences had her as a character in ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'', where wolves are quite reasonable mounts. She-Hulk tries this and of course horribly slays the poor beastie.
35	* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': At one point Shotgun Smith finds himself having to catch a ride in ComicBook/{{Robin}}'s Redbird, a small armored transforming supercar that really hasn't got room for an adult, let alone a large one. He finds himself kind of wedged in the passenger seat with his knees up near his shoulders, his shins against the dash and having to duck his head to fit. He grumbles the whole way and has to be helped unfolding himself to escape from the vehicle.
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39	* Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' features an inversion. The Arab vendor at the beginning of the movie is a comically small man, but his camel, although huge, tires out and collapses. Then again, he was also carrying all of the vendor's wares at the time, but this isn't revealed until a moment later for comic effect.
40	* The climax ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot'' shows Ruber's army, who have been fused with their weapons, running after Kayley while she escapes from their lair, riding warthogs that are way smaller than them.
41	* In the "Pastoral Symphony" segment of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', Bacchus comes in riding a tiny unicorn-donkey (which the animators called Jackus), both tipsy from drinking wine.
42	* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2010'' gives us the intentionally comical example of the stoutest member of the teenage vikings, Fishlegs, riding the smallest dragon, the Gronckle.
43	* In ''The Magic Pony'' (original Russian title ''Konyok Gorbunok'' -- "The Small Humpbacked Horse") the hero is a rather short teenager, but his flying talking horse is said to be 85 cm at the shoulders, but with ears over 70 cm long.[[note]]The original poem is ambiguous. It gives the height as "3 vershoks" (13 cm), but in different contexts that could also mean "1 arshin and 3 vershoks" (85 cm) or "2 arshins and 3 vershoks" (155 cm). In other places the horse is called "toy-sized" and "hanging around [his master's] feet", thus the second size seems the likeliest.[[/note]]
44	* ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011'' shows a good example of this. While Pooh is attempting to get honey from a bee hive with help from Piglet, the bees give chase to them. Piglet lands head first inside the honey pot and starts running around aimlessly with Pooh riding on top of him.
45	* During the climax of ''WesternAnimation/Klaus2019'', while most of the Krums and Ellingboes ride large toboggans while chasing Jesper and Klaus, Mr. Ellingboe's huge daughter Pumpkin can only afford to steal a tiny sled from a little Sami boy.
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49	* ''Film/AustinPowersInGoldmember'': Austin and Mini-Me do a TotemPoleTrench to sneak around Dr. Evil's lab. Mini-Me was on the bottom.
50	* Invoked in dialogue in ''Film/{{Thor}}'' when the main character walks into a pet shop and demands to be given a horse. When he realizes there are no horses, only dogs, cats and birds, he replies "Then give me one of those large enough to ride."
51	* In ''Film/BlackNarcissus'' an Englishman is working as an agent for a local noble. He's shown coming into view riding a tiny pony with his feet barely above the ground. It's probably the biggest horse you find in the Himalayas.
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55	* Gregor Clegane from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', The Mountain That Rides. It's less of a tiny-mount situation and more of a the-guy-is-so-frikken-huge-that-a-Percheron-on-growth-hormone-would-be-tiny-by-comparison situation.
56	* ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1'', on one of its narrative asides, mentions that back when their home planet was still inhabitable, the Vogons would sit on a sort of gazelle-like creatures for entertainment. The Vogons are huge, monstrous things and the gazelles were small and sleek, meaning that sitting on one would break its back and kill it... but the Vogons sat on them anyway (not surprisingly, since they're supposed to represent everything daft and stubborn about humankind).
57	* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': Rincewind in ''Literature/TheLastContinent''. The twist being that the mount didn't have to be so small (it had powers) so was only doing so to be pissy.
58	* In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'', while Loial's horse is a huge draft beast, the fact that Loial is about 9 feet tall makes it look like a pony when he rides it.
59	* Defied in ''[[Literature/{{Belgariad}} Belgarath The Sorcerer]]''; Algar doesn't want to ride because he's so big in comparison to a horse that his feet would drag on the ground. This is mostly because Algar, his brothers, and his father are all ''very'' large even by Alorn standards. According to Belgarath, horses at this time (post-cracking of the world, but still very early in the planet's history) were also much smaller than "modern" horses. (Within 16 years, Algar's people have managed to breed horses large enough for Algar to ride. There's no word on whether Belar cheated or David Eddings flunked biology.)
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63	* ''Series/RedDwarf'': When Lister employs the "steed cheat" in a Medieval knight VR game, the enemy knight's magnificent steed is replaced by the tiniest little donkey you can imagine.
64	* Downplayed in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' in "Frontierland", where Sam rides off at one point to go get help. It's not a particularly large difference -- and the mount is a fair size - but Sam is played by the 6'4" Jared Padalecki, so he's about as big as his ride.
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68	* UsefulNotes/{{Hinduism}}: The Hindu god Ganesha, who is a plump BigEater, rides around on a rat.
69	* ''Literature/TheFourGospels'': UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday riding a donkey.
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73	* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series:
74	** [[PowerupMount Yoshi]] is about the same size as Mario in some games in the series.
75	** ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'': The Yoshi Kid party member. He's maybe about half the size of Mario, tops, and yet Yoshi can not only carry him around, he can run twice as fast as Mario can on his own and even fly for a short time, without ever tiring out. He can even carry ''two'' people at one point. However, he is a CuteBruiser ([[BrattyHalfPint and a loudmouth]]) who enjoys fighting in the [[MonsterArena Glitz Pit]], so carrying Mario probably isn't a hassle for... [[HelloInsertNameHere whatever you call him]].
76	** ''VideoGame/PaperMario64'', Mario's party member, Sushie, is a fish that Mario is twice the size of, yet she is able to swim in the water with Mario riding on her back.
77	** ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' and the DS remake feature a small owl who can carry Mario, Luigi, Wario, or Yoshi to great heights, usually appearing in tall levels like Whomp's Fortress and Tall, Tall Mountain. He ''does'' tire out eventually, though.
78	** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosWonder'' has a power-up which turns the user into an anthropomorphic elephant; said elephant can then mount Yoshi, who is visibly struggling under the weight.
79	* The ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' series is made of this trope.
80	** Animals ridden by a large ape at some point or another? A frog, a parrot, a snake, and even ''a freaking spider''. Granted, there are other, larger animal buddies that don't invoke this trope, such as Rambi the rhinoceros and Enguarde the swordfish.
81	** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongJungleBeat'' also features Helibirds, weird duck-parrot hybrid thingies that can carry Donkey Kong around by their talons, but these do tire out if DK has too many bananas on him (and, generally, that game is more reasonable regarding the size and species of the animals Donkey Kong can ride).
82	** The prime example is ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble'', where Dixie is giving Kiddie a piggyback ride; appropriately, this causes her to slow down and not jump as high.
83	** In the cancelled spinoff ''Donkey Kong Racing'', this was true of many of the mounts, since you could ride on absolutely tiny versions of Rambi and enemies like Zingers. To see Taj (an absolutely massive blue elephant genie) riding a wasp looks almost ridiculous. See [[http://www.mariowiki.com/Donkey_Kong_Racing here]].
84	* ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' features this trope when Kazooie runs around while Banjo rides on her back. It's incredible how she manages to maintain such fast speed even with the weight of an entire bear on her back.
85	* In ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand'', players can hop onto each other's back. The bulky [[TheBigGuy King Dedede]] can hitch a ride on the other characters (each at least half as big as he is) as easily as the other way around.
86	* Defied in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask''. If you try to mount Epona while in Goron form, Tatl will stop you and tell you that you will crush the poor thing in your current form.
87	* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'':
88	** Every race has a mount favored by its culture, and for a long time, certain races were restricted from certain mounts if they were too large. For the Alliance, only gnomes and dwarves could ride the gnomes' mechanostriders (robot emus) since the other races were too big. On the Horde side, the tauren were too large to ride any ground mounts except their own (a ''dinosaur'') and the orcs' wolves. However, a patch was eventually released that allowed anybody to ride anything. If the mount's original size is too small for the character, it's scaled up. Unfortunately, even this doesn't always work. Tauren--especially the men--still look ridiculous on the blood elves' hawkstriders (the inspiration for the page image), and male draenei look silly on horses and mechanostriders. Even with the scaling, it doesn't always seem in proportion.
89	** Also true with the aerial taxi mounts. Seeing a male tauren riding a bat makes you wonder how the poor creature could even get off the ground.
90	** In one of the early Death Knight quests, the fledgling Death Knight is instructed to steal a horse to earn his steed. A tauren stealing a pony and riding it back to the Scourge base camp is one of the funniest things you will ever see. It's too bad that when he gets his Deathcharger, they are all standard horses, scaled appropriately, and they don't get to keep the one they steal.
91	** In ''Wrath of the Lich King'', one of the quests in Storm Peaks involves the character taking on the disguise of one of the Hyldnir -- large blue frost giant/viking women who are significantly larger than the player character. If you fly over the region on one of the standard faction flying mounts, your character will automatically take on the disguise, becoming at least as large, if not larger, than your mount. If you are riding a gnomish mechanostrider or dwarven ram ground mount in the area, you wind up ''significantly'' larger than your mount. (Especially jarring if you are playing a gnome or dwarf character as well.) This becomes doubly amusing if you're playing as a male tauren, as your mount will actually scale ''down'' from its usual size.
92	** There is also a limited use [[BraggingRightsReward version]] of this with the mount 'Tiny' from the trading card game. You get 50 uses of a ludicrously undersized horse/raptor (if you are Alliance or Horde, respectively).
93	** Another subversion: Before the ''Cataclysm'' expansion, all Paladins were given regal horses as their mounts, despite how silly male draenei look on horses, as mentioned above. But this would obviously not work for the new tauren Paladins, so they were given Sunwalker Kodos instead. It's possible that the developers were designing them and remembered how odd male draenei look on horses, because now draenei Paladins have their own specialized mounts too.
94	** And played straight again with the camels available from a faction in Uldum and some of the larger races. In particular, the OptionalBoss Earthrager Ptah has rideable camels as part of his fight mechanics, which never change in size since they're considered vehicles and not mounts.
95	** The ''Mists of Pandaria'' expansion added new mounts, including cranes. If you thought that Tauren riding ostriches was ridiculous, just wait until you see them riding a twig-legged crane.
96	* ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm'' occasionally has this, especially early on before they reworked how some characters ride mounts. All mounts are about the same size regardless of who rides them, so it could get pretty comical to see someone the size of [[BigRedDevil Diablo]] riding a horse meant for a human.
97	* An odd example born of GameplayAndStorySegregation: some very small Franchise/{{Pokemon}} can be taught the [=HMs=] Fly and Surf, then be used as flying and swimming mounts. Which leads to some... interesting mental imagery. Every game ignores the visual ramifications of this trope, however: Gen I and II has the player become the Flying-type and Water-type menu sprites when using these moves, while Generations III through VI show generic large birds and whales (the former resembling Swellow, the latter Wailmer) carrying the player. Gen VI would go on to show specific {{mon}}s like Lapras with their full models, but still use generic models in most cases. Gen VII onwards averts this trope by replacing [=HMs=] with Ride Pokémon, which are all specific species and reasonably sized compared to the player. The devs admitted to briefly considering playing this trope completely straight as a possible feature in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee]]'', though.
98	-->'''Masuda:''' At one point we had people ride on the backs of smaller Pokémon, and we felt sorry for them.
99	* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog''
100	** Tails can carry Sonic for quite a distance, considering he's half his size and flies by whirling his tails like a helicopter. Same case goes for him carrying other Sonic characters such as Amy.
101	** In ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'', in addition to Tails, each Flight team member of their respective PowerTrio is able to carry both their teammates while flying (though they do eventually tire out), even when the Power team members are several times their size. The latter especially applies to Team Dark (Rouge with Omega), Team Rose (Cream with Big), and Team Chaotix (Charmy with Vector).
102	* ''VideoGame/{{Rift}}'': A male bahmi (the towering giant members of the Defiant faction) on a vaiyuu (somewhere between a gazelle and an ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Oviraptor]]''). Hard to decide to whether to laugh or worry that the mount is about to collapse.
103	* Inverted in Moose's scenario of ''VideoGame/BrainDead13'' in that Lance is the tiny piggyback rider and Moose is the huge mount in a piggyback ride that involves a lot of dodging the deadly lightning rods.
104	* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}''
105	** Pigs are only 88 cm high and 130 cm long and yet they don't seem to mind when a 1.8 metre tall player character tries to ride them. In fact, they will go about doing their usual business (that is, wandering aimlessly) unless the rider holds a [[MotivationOnAStick carrot on a stick]].
106	** Spider Jockeys are rarely-spawned mobs consisting on a [[DemBones Skeleton]] riding a [[GiantSpider Spider]]. If the spider is a Cave Spider (which is half the size of a Spider), then you get this trope. If the Skeleton is a Wither Skeleton (who are about 1.5x the size of a Skeleton), it results in [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/minecraft_gamepedia/images/8/8d/A_Wither_Skeleton_Cave_Spider_Jockey.jpg this]].
107	* In ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter4'', the Seltas Queen is a good four or five times the size of the male Seltas. This does not stop the Seltas from picking up the flightless Queen and flying her around.
108	* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', Holfgeir Horse-Crusher, the stablemaster for Riften, got his dubious sobriquet after breaking the back of a small horse after drinking a bit too much.
109	* While most champions in ''VideoGame/{{Paladins}}'' are around the right size for their horses, Front Line champions are generally [[TheBigGuy so large]] that they make the horses look tiny in comparison. Inverted for small champions, such as Pip and Willo, who have to ride standing up and hovering respectively just so they can see where they're going.
110	* The default Ram mount in ''VideoGame/{{Battlerite}}'' is much smaller than some characters, most noticeably Rook.
111	* Chocobos in ''VideoGame/{{Final Fantasy XI}}'' have no complaints being ridden by any race, including the Galka who are as large, if not larger than them.
112	** Conspicuously averted in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', where characters are given a mount of appropriate size. The flavour text for the Company Chocobo points out the stables deliberately maintain larger Destriers for the towering Roegadyn and hulking Hrothgar, as well as Jennet breeds small enough for Lalafell to control.
113	* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'': General Radahn is a hulking giant of a demigod, but he rides on a scrawny, emaciated horse that's so small compared to him, his leg stumps drag on the ground even though he doesn't have feet. Many players didn't even notice at first he was riding a horse into battle. [[JustifiedTrope It's stated that]] Radahn learned [[GravityMaster gravitational magic]] [[MundaneUtility specifically so]] that he could keep riding his favourite horse by reducing his own mass. Notably, his horse is gigantic in its own right, easily dwarfing the player character -- Radahn is just even larger than that.
114	* In ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'', the player can ride (but not saddle/use as their own horse) donkeys, which are comically small and slow. In [[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemptionII the prequel]], there are more breeds of horse to choose from, with the very common Morgan being a small mount with middling speed, health, and stamina, but easily caught in the wild or stolen off a random NPC in a pinch. On the other end of the spectrum, the best horses in the game are Arabians, which can be bought for hundreds of dollars in stables or as one-of-a-kind horses in the wild, offer the best handling and speed in the game with solid stamina and health to back it up, but look too small to carry any adult, much less Arthur Morgan. Many, many mods exist for the PC version of the game to avert this trope.
115	* In ''VideoGame/MultiVersus'', [[Film/{{Gremlins}} Gizmo]] has a move that enables him to drive a toy car around the stage into opponents and hop in and out of it at any time. His allies can also drive the toy car around without concern for how big they are compared to it (and yes, [[https://preview.redd.it/gdm4kcqbcvm91.png?width=399&format=png&auto=webp&s=20d1070ff35861721bfc4301db16835787f09cb0 this does include]] WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant).
116	* In ''VideoGame/CrashTeamRacing'' as well as ''VideoGame/CrashNitroKart'', the hulking Tiny Tiger drives about in a comparatively-tiny kart. Ditto with Koala Kong in the ''[[VideoGame/CrashTeamRacingNitroFueled Nitro-Fueled]]'' remake.
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120	* ''Webcomic/AwkwardZombie'' parodies this in a [[https://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic/justice comic]] about an expansion pack for ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' which would allow no weight restrictions on mounts.
121	* A ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'' strip starts with Mario riding Yoshi, and Franchise/{{Kirby}} asking if he can try it. Mario agrees, and the third panel shows him riding on Kirby, who is straining to carry him.
122	* [[http://rounindx.deviantart.com/art/My-tribute-Scyther-can-t-fly-162957699 This]] Franchise/{{Pokemon}} comic shows the rival Blue standing on top of a tiny Spearow and enjoying the thrill of flying, while Red is left baffled because his Scyther, despite being big enough to carry him, have wings, and is part Flying-type, is unable to do the same.
123	* The ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'' example above is averted in [[https://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=101 this]] ''Webcomic/VGCats'' comic.
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127	* ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'':
128	** In Part 3 of the "Mario and Bowser's Stupid and Crazy Adventure" story arc, after Bowser successfully hatches a Yoshi, Mario coaxes the Yoshi to let him ride him, due to Bowser's immense size. Bowser is outraged, but Mario tells him to ride on one of his Koopas or Goombas. Bowser makes [[ButtMonkey Chef Pee Pee]] carry him on his back, much to the latter's ire, the result of which makes the latter go into a coma.
129	** In the episode, "Franchise/{{Shrek}}'s Crappy Wish", when a wish Shrek made turns Mario into a donkey, Shrek tricks Mario into giving him a ride to change him back to normal, the result of which breaks Mario's neck.
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133	* Several times in ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'', Cadpig has been shown supporting Lucky (who is twice her size) on her shoulders without consequences.
134	* Happens in the ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingAdrenaliniBrothers'' short "Volcano of Venom!"; [[OnlySaneMan Enk]] wants to use the small bike for the jump stunt but [[TheBigGuy Adi]] gets on first and makes him take the big one. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Enk ends up flying over the horizon while Adi barely makes it to the end of the ramp.]]
135	* The WesternAnimation/BackAtTheBarnyard episode, “Fumblebums”, has a very awkward moment that shows Otis standing on Abby’s shoulders while she’s holding onto Pig and Freddy while at the same time being supported by Peck! What’s actually going on is anybody’s guess.
136	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans'':
137	** Downplayed in "Robot Rampage, Part 1"; at one point Uniqua carries Robot Roscoe on her back, however Robot Roscoe is big in the "heavy" sense rather than the "towers over other characters" sense.
138	** Played straight in "Horsing Around", in which [[TheBigGuy Tyrone]] rides a tiny donkey.
139	* ''WesternAnimation/BarneyBear'' rode a very small donkey in "The Prospecting Bear".
140	* In ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' Dinobot often rides around on Transmetal Rattrap in hot rod mode, despite being several feet taller. [[ShowAccuracyToyAccuracy Note that]] in [[MerchandiseDriven the toyline]] they were actually both in the same size class, but the animators chose to depict TM Rattrap as being roughly the same size as his original, "basic" class form.
141	** Which, with some fiddling, can be replicated with said figures.
142	* ''WesternAnimation/BreezlyAndSneezly'' perform a TotemPoleTrench in one episode. Sneezly was on the bottom despite the fact that Breezly was much larger than him, but either way, [[IllTimedSneeze this probably wasn't a good idea]].
143	* ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'' Cleaveland rode piggyback on Rallo on one episode and sat on top of Donna during a concert in another episode.
144	* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': In "Luck O' the Ducks", Scrooge, the Nephews and Launchpad ride miniature horses. The trope is most noticeable with [[GentleGiant Launchpad]], whose horse tries to buck its heavy load.
145	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
146	** Peter always wanted to ride Brian like a horse, but obviously that wasn't happening. One day Peter discovered liposuction! Yep...
147	** Peter has been shown riding on Brian, a water-skiing girl (on the cover of a magazine), and even his wife, Lois (at least that's what the episode made us think)!
148	* There is one episode of ''WesternAnimation/FantasticMax'' where FX was able to carry Max on his shoulders, despite the fact that he's a little bit smaller than Max.
149	* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'':
150	** An episode has Fred riding on top of Wilma during a surfing contest.
151	** In another episode, Fred stands on top of Barney as they do a TotemPoleTrench.
152	* The Gandy Goose cartoon “Wide Open Spaces” has a huge a brawny Deadeye Dick riding a pony quite too small for him to ride.
153	* ''WesternAnimation/GoDogGo'': In the episode, "Take Me Out to the Fetch Game", Flip Chacely is discovered to be standing on Lady Lydia’s head while hiding under her abnormally large hat.
154	* On ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', Cowboy Stackhouse rode a horse half his width and a third his height.
155	* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness'' at the end of one episode Mantis offers Po a lift to the jade palace by riding on his back.
156	* ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'':
157	** "So You Skink You Can Dance" took this to a high level with Vinnie dancing around with ''Blythe'' standing on his shoulders!
158	** The pets have formed the HumanLadder a number of times, but they were not always (as a matter of fact, they were rarely) stacked in order from smallest to biggest.
159	* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
160	** In the cartoons featuring Daffy Duck and Porky Pig as Western lawmen, scrawny Daffy rides a glorious steed, but portly Porky rides a diminutive burro that looks as though he can't carry so much as a heavy quilt. Their nemesis, outlaw Nasty Canasta, can also be spotted riding a horse that's much, much too small for his enormous figure (but being a TopHeavyGuy, doesn't have a problem keeping his feet off the ground).
161	** In "WesternAnimation/BarbaryCoastBunny", Nasty Canasta (a completely different character, but just as big) has a small donkey who, as Nasty ties a boulder-size piece of gold on his back before riding him, wears an Abe Vigoda-like look of hangdog resignation.
162	** The "rich, unwary traveller" in "WesternAnimation/RobinHoodDaffy" rides a tiny donkey that shouldn't be able to hold his weight ''and'' the bags of gold coins he's carrying.
163	** Inverted in one Yosemite Sam cartoons where Sam bounces atop a horse that is way too large for him and has to resort to jumping off it and beating it over the head in order to get it to stop as he's so tiny in comparison to it that hauling on the reins makes no difference at all.
164	* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse'' can sometimes be seen riding his dog, Pluto.
165	* ''WesternAnimation/MikeLuAndOg'' shows a great example of this with Lu using her pet turtle, Lancelot, as her royal slave. Throughout the series, she has sat on him, rode on his back, and used him to give her a boost.
166	* ''WesternAnimation/TheOblongs'': the Valley kids sneak into a Hill's birthday party and are discovered. Milo jumps on a tiny pony that, despite its incredibly rapid legs movements, goes nowhere fast. Two bullies jump on similar ponies but discover they are not catching up to Milo. They jump off their horses and, in two steps, capture him.
167	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Open}}'': In season two Boog the bear rides Giselle the deer. Being that he’s multiple times her weight, she stumbles before quickly collapsing.
168	* ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'':
169	** In one episode, Marshall and Skye end up getting tangled up together in a jump rope. When Ryder calls the pups, Marshall heads to the lookout carrying Skye on his back, but before they get to the elevator, Skye somehow flips over and carries Marshall on her back the rest of the way.
170	** Taken to a much bigger level in "Pups Save a Giant Bone" when Marshall winds up picking up all the pups and taking them into the elevator, and all six pups end up in a weird piled-up position...with Skye on the bottom!
171	** In "Pups Save the PAW Patroller", Skye comes flying into the elevator with Marshall riding on her back.
172	** In "Pup Pup Boogie", the pups' human leader (who, ironically, is named Ryder) tries to fit inside Rubble's rig. It doesn't work.
173	* On an episode of ''WesternAnimation/QuickDrawMcGraw'', Quick Draw is shown riding on Baba-Looie like a steed.
174	* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'': "Jack Vs. Aku." Aku starts the episode by ordering a minion over the phone like a pizza. He receives a large, brutish ogre-like creature several times larger than Aku himself, whom he orders to destroy Jack. The ogre proceeds to travel to Jack... by driving a rather mundane little car that is ''far'' too small for him, billowing expansively out its open windows.
175	* On an episode of “Super Chicken”, the titular character chases after the bad guys acting as a horse with Fred riding on his back. It doesn’t go too well since Super Chicken deliberately ignored Fred because he wasn’t giving the proper horse commands.
176	* In some episodes of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'', Scrappy is shown carrying Scooby and Shaggy at the same time!
177	** An episode of ''WesternAnimation/BeCoolScoobyDoo'' had a RunningGag of the entire gang plus the [[OneShotCharacter One-Shot Characters]] all piling on top of Velma to escape from the MonsterOfTheWeek. Velma {{lampshade\|Hanging}}s this almost immediately, asking what the hell everybody was thinking when she is quite clearly the smallest and physically weakest person out of all of them. This doesn't get them to stop, however. At the end of the episode, [[spoiler:the entire mansion is about to explode]], and yet everyone stands around refusing to budge unless Velma carries them to safety.
178	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
179	** After Apu's wife discovers he's cheated on her, she only accepts him back if he follows a list of her demands -- at one point, Homer is riding him like a horse. Apu protests "This was not on the list!" Homer cheerfully replies "It's been on ''my'' list for a long time!" This moment is made into a "New Yorker" cartoon, one of his wife's demands.
180	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sczb1dnRXCY Another episode]] has Nelson laughing at a freakishly tall man driving a car small enough that his knees are by his ears.
181	** In another episode, Bart forces Lisa to give him a shoulder ride since he was "The Chosen One". Despite not liking it at first, Lisa soon takes advantage of it when Bart hits his head on a tree branch.
182	* When Mr. Krabs and Plankton do a TotemPoleTrench in the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "The Other Patty", Plankton somehow ends up in the bottom, much to his displeasure.
183	* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': In [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS6E3Fugitive "Fugitive"]], small medical droid AZI-3 reveals he has a "survival" speeder bike mode, resulting in ARC trooper Fives riding him and looking more than a little bit silly in the process.
184	* ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama World Tour]]'': The five members of Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot, including [[BigEater Owen]], ride a single goat.
185	** In one episode of the first season, the campers were divided into boy/girl teams and were handcuffed together. The challenge was one member had to piggyback their partner across Skull Island. Geoff and Gwen were a team. At the start, Geoff carried Gwen, but about halfway, the two of them had a nice ''long'' talk with each other, and the rest of the way, Gwen carried Geoff.
186	* ''WesternAnimation/WelcomeToTonkaTown'': This ensues in "Teamwork In Tonka Town" when Chuck and Hook (a dump truck and a fire truck, respectively) have to enlist the help of Bobo (a tiny motorboat) in order to cross a river when the bridge is washed out.
187	* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' feature the Juggernaut, who's an enormous, musclebound behemoth, stealing a normal-sized car and ripping the roof and front seats out so [[http://comicsalliance.com/files/2014/04/XMen04.jpg he can cram himself in it like a Shriner in one of their little cars.]] One wonders how he was able to work the pedals, given the size of his feet.
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191	* Some birds of prey have been known to steal lambs. Attempts on small children are not unheard of!
192	* UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan and his Mongol hordes were known to ride around on sturdy, but small, mountain ponies. Most Mongols of the time were pretty small themselves, but there are several accounts of European knights running into a Mongol horde and being astonished at the sight of the comparatively little ponies running circles around their big, strong warhorses while their HorseArcher riders [[AnnoyingArrows peppered them with arrows]].
193	* The world's fattest twins, Billy and Benny [=McCrary=]/[=McGuire=] and their motorcycles.
194	* Vikings rode on horses that were around 130-150 cm at the shoulder. The horses are still here: Shetland ponies.
195	* Arabian horses are rather small in comparison to most of the horses traditionally used for war, and some are even born with fewer vertebrae than most horses, giving them a shorter back. However, due to their bones being exceptionally dense and strong for their size, Arabians generally have no trouble carrying the same size rider as larger horses. Trouble may occasionally arise with crossbreed offspring, however, if they inherit the Arabian's ''size'' without the accompanying ''bone density''.
196	* There's always the [[http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/transportation/blogs/shriner-cars-whos-got-the-hidden-history Shriners and their little cars]]
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