->''"It is interesting we have not met before, you and I, having been foes for so long. I expected you to be taller."''
-->-- '''Ysanne Isard''', ''[[Literature/XWingSeries Isard's Revenge]]''

->''"So, you're the captain of Deep Space Nine, and the Emissary to the Prophets. Decorated combat officer, widower, father, mentor... and oh, yes, the man who started the war with the Dominion. Somehow I thought you'd be taller."''
-->-- '''Senator Vreenak''', ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E19InThePaleMoonlight In the Pale Moonlight]]"

->''"Does it bother you that you are shorter than most heroes?"''
-->-- '''Ranking Machine''', ''VideoGame/RatchetDeadlocked''

->"A king in Denmark was called Hrolf Kraki, and he was the most famous of all kings in the old time. (...) A poor fellow, called Vogg, once came to King Hrolf's hall when the king was still a young man and of rather delicate growth. Vogg went before him and looked at him. The king said: What do you mean to say, fellow, looking at me this way? Vogg answered: 'When I was at home, I heard say that King Hrolf at Hleidra was the greatest man in the Northlands, but now here sits in the high-seat a little stick and they call it their king!'"
-->-- ''Literature/ProseEdda''

->''"You’re shorter, looking at you like this. Tall for a girl, but… not'' tall."
-->-- '''Clockblocker''', talking to '''Skitter''' (with whom he has never before interacted without her trying to [[HorrifyingHero shove insects down his throat]]), ''Literature/{{Worm}}''

->''"I had heard that you were a wise, regal vampire, several centuries old. I was slightly intimidated at the prospect of meeting you, truth be told. But sitting here... I find that you are actually very... ''[[UndeadChild cute]]."
-->-- '''Angel Anevant''', during an audience with '''[[VampireMonarch Mina Tepes]]''', ''Manga/DanceInTheVampireBund''

->''"That? '''That''' is the whelp? You mean to tell me this girlish boy is the devastator of my army? I don't believe you. I refuse to believe you. I have better warriors than that in slave collars!"''
-->-- '''Queen Maeve''', ''Literature/TheCattleRaidOfCooley''

->'''The Clown:''' How are you? I'm fear incarnate, the living embodiment of terror stretching back a billion years. The most base of all emotions.\\
'''Captain Janeway:''' Heh. I thought you'd be taller.
-->-- '''Website/SFDebris''' reviewing ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E23TheThaw The Thaw]]"

->'''Peter Pan''': I remember you being a lot bigger.
->'''Captain Hook''': To a ten year old, I'm huge.
-->--''Film/{{Hook}}''

->'''Scrooge:''' Who are you?
->'''[[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} Jiminy Cricket]]:''' Why, I'm the Ghost of Christmas Past.
->'''Scrooge:''' Oh. I thought you'd be taller.
->'''Jiminy:''' Hmph! Listen, Scrooge, if men were measured by kindness, you'd be no bigger than a speck of dust!
-->--''WesternAnimation/MickeysChristmasCarol''

->'''Karla:''' I've seen you on the viscasts of course, but you look different somehow -- [[InvertedTrope you're taller than I expected]].\\
'''Deeta:''' [[DeadpanSnarker I usually stand in a hole.]]
-->-- ''Series/BlakesSeven'', "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E12DeathWatch Death-Watch]]"

->Mr. Muggleton had read reports and romances about the Great Criminologist, who sits in his library like an intellectual spider, and throws out theoretical filaments of a web as large as the world. He was prepared to be led to the lonely chateau where [[Literature/SherlockHolmes the expert wore a purple dressing-gown, to the attic where he lived on opium and acrostics]], to the vast laboratory or the lonely tower. To his astonishment he was led to the very edge of the crowded beach by the pier to meet a dumpy little clergyman, with a broad hat and a broad grin, who was at that moment hopping about on the sands with a crowd of poor children; and excitedly waving a very little wooden spade.
-->-- ''Literature/FatherBrown'', "The Pursuit of Mr. Blue"

->'''President:''' By the way, he was quite different from what I expected.
->'''Kremmen:''' Oh really?
->'''President:''' Yes, I thought from your report that [[InvertedTrope Gort would be short!]]
->'''Kremmen:''' Well I too sort of thought that Gort would be short before we fought and he got caught and his evil came to naught, but I guess I'm just fraught, taut, and a little overwrought since I brought Gort back to port.
-->-- ''Captain Kremmen of the Star Corps''

->''I'm Gangrel, King of Plegia! You the Summoner? Hahahaha! Thought you'd be taller!''
-->-- '''Gangrel''', ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes''

->'''Edric:''' ''[[TykeBomb That's]]'' the Golden Guard?\\
'''Emira:''' Dude looks sickly.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E18LabyrinthRunners Labyrinth Runners]]"

->''"...So it's [[PlayerCharacter you]]. I somehow imagined you... More imposing. Huh."''
-->-- '''Efena''', ''VideoGame/{{Wynncraft}}''

->Apparently, when a king sent an envoy specifically to meet with the ''fabled'' Dragon Hero—and he was going to strangle Chestnut for that saga if he ever caught the skald alone in a room somewhere—they expected the Hero ([[CapitalLettersAreMagic capitalized]]; you could ''hear'' it) to look the part!
-->--''Fanfic/AThingOfVikings''

->'''Scrooge:''' Who are you?\\
'''Ghost of Christmas Past:''' I am the spirit whose coming was foretold to you.\\
'''Scrooge:''' ...You don't look like a ghost.\\
'''Ghost:''' [[IllTakeThatAsACompliment Thank you.]]
-->--''Film/Scrooge1970''
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