- Senri, a bear-man (well, he can turn his arm into a bear arm, at least), from the manga +Anima. He's extremely large and powerful, but his personality is probably best summed up by his character data. "Likes: small flowers." No, really. He likes to press them and use them as bookmarks in his diary. He's also The Quiet One.
- Yamame Yasashiki of The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You is Rentarou's tallest girlfriend. She is also a sweet-natured Nature Lover who even cares about weeds.
- Angel Densetsu: Both Kitano and his father are large, scary-looking guys. They're sweethearts who wouldn't hurt a fly.
- Koujirou Banbi from Ai Ore! Love Me! is a large, muscular teenager with a bad reputation and a scar on his face. He's actually a pretty gentle and sweet guy though.
- Attack on Titan:
- Team Dad Reiner Braun, who towers over his fellow trainees and is built like a linebacker. His Heterosexual Life-Partner Bertolt Hoover may also count, being incredibly tall, noted to be The Quiet One and a follower at heart. Horribly subverted, when it turns out both are not only Titan Shifters sent to infiltrate the human ranks... but the two Titans responsible for breaching the Walls in the first place. And then double subverted, as it's revealed that neither of them actually wanted to do it, and they're both struggling with crushing — and in Reiner's case, mind-breaking — levels of guilt; and that their affection for their comrades was genuine.
- Played straight with Mike Zacharias, who is the second strongest member of the Survey Corps and stands at an impressive 196 cm (6'4"), making him the tallest human in the series. He's also a fairly mellow guy who is perfectly willing to make himself a decoy to ensure the escape of those under his command.
- Sakaki from Azumanga Daioh is a Huge Schoolgirl who's often perceived as brooding and unapproachable, when in reality she's just shy, self-conscious and absorbed in thinking about stuffed animals and other girlish matters. Although she has little interest in sports, she is a natural athlete who almost always wins when asked to compete.
- Beastars has bear people being some of the tallest living beings, but their cute faces and overall demeanor paint them as gentle giants. They all harbor a Dark Secret; they must consume a Fantastic Drug and drink honey, or else they start Hulking Out, go Drunk with Power, and become bad news.
- Belle from Belle and Sebastian is a female example: an enormous white dog who is incredibly gentle and loves kids, but can easily make a short work of a pack of wolves threatening her boy Sebastian. Unfortunately, she is also actively hunted by the authorities (who call her The White Demon) because they believe her to be dangerous.
- Pippin from Berserk while being the biggest man around is the most soft spoken member of the Band of the Hawk.
- Xander Shakadera from Beyblade Burst is extremely tall and muscular for an 11 year old and an utter teddy bear of a boy.
- Bleach:
- Yasutora "Chad" Sado is tall, powerful, and completely unwilling to use his powers to defend himself; however, he will readily bring the pain to anyone who wants to hurt his friends. He also has a secret obsession with cute things. He only quite subverts the not-so-intelligent part though, being 11th in the top 50 Freshmen grades (out of almost 400 students), and having some quite smart plans of himself; but then again, in Bleach, everybody is a nerd. Sort of...
- From the shinigami side, according to the data books, Sajin Komamura owns a dog called Goro, and takes it for a walk whenever he has free time. He's a Nice Guy when off-duty, very amiable to his squad, and likes watching dog shows.
- Hachigen Ushoda of the Vizards. He's a huge cuddly man-mountain with pink hair, and a Barrier Warrior who prefers to use kidou rather than wave a sword around.
- Jidanbou, too. Once you get to know him, that is.
- Buso Renkin: Masashi Daihama is a large and upbeat but soft-spoken boy, who dislikes violence and is the most normal of Kazuki's school friends. When he is forced to use violence, however, he is able to break open a locked door with ease.
- The Laputan robots from Castle in the Sky can be extremely dangerous (They can shoot lethal lasers from their eyes), but care for innocent birds' nests and put flowers on an ancient grave. And they also defend little girls from Corrupt Bureaucrat types.
- Galgali in Chainsaw Man was the Violence Devil, the Anthropomorphic Personification of the human fear of physical violence. After Possessing a Dead Body and adopting the personality of the deceased, he becomes a kind, honorable Martial Pacifist. Even when removing his Power Limiter and Hulking Out, his only thought is protecting his friends.
- In his true form, Chrono from Chrono Crusade behaves rather like this. Although he has a violent temper when pushed too far, he genuinely doesn't want to hurt anyone and is often shown regretting the battles he takes a part of.
- City Hunter: Umibozu, at least when he's not pissed or trying to kill you, is a very gentle person, in spite of his size and intimidating looks.
- It is hinted that Dauf from Claymore was like that when he was a human, and later a half-yoma warrior. However, when he became an Awakened Being, his personality became significantly more evil.
- Geronimo Jr./005 from Cyborg 009. He's HUGE, has a mohawk and possesses super strength and stamina even bigger than 009's, yet he's a very level-headed and soft-spoken pacifist and very often is the voice of reason in the team.
- The Great Gozu from Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School: Future Arc, is the extremely large and powerful "former ultimate wrestler" who works as a bodyguard for the chairman of the Future Federation and wears a weird bull mask but, following in the franchise's tradition, he is actually the most kind-hearted and moral of the group. He is vehemently opposed to his comrade's decision to kill their members one-by-one to end the Monokuma Hunter killing game and tries to talk reason into them. He is also seen in the background covering Chisa's dead body with his jacket and praying after Bandai's death. The only time that he actually fights anyone is to protect Makoto and Aoi from being killed by the distrustful members of the Federation, and he chooses to side with them over his own friends and promises to help them survive the game. Unlike the other examples of this trope in the franchise, Gozu never kills or hurts anyone. The worst thing he does is cuss a blue streak due to his anger at his comrade's bloodlust. Not that being one of the few purely good characters helps him any as he is the third person to be killed at the end of episode 2, unlike the above two examples, who lasted until a bit later on in their respective series.
- Dragon Ball Z:
- Android 16. He's huge, has massively broad shoulders, wears chunky green armor, and has harsh facial features and a mohawk. But he gets a couple of Pet The Bird moments, drops his homicide mission in order to try to kill the main villain, Cell, and eventually attempts a Heroic Sacrifice, which turns out to be futile, except for pushing Gohan into enough of a rage to go Super Saiyan 2.
- Android 8 from the original Dragon Ball. A tall, imposing figure who happens to look exactly like Frankenstein's Monster and was built to be a destructive killing machine, but is ultimately a Friend to All Living Things. Still, whatever you do, don't put his friends in danger. General White learned this the hard way.
- The Ox King. He starts out of a big, strong guy with a reputation for being a bloodthirsty monster, but quickly defends Goku. He spends most of his appearances over the franchise as a doting grandfather.
- Despite being a towering fighter possessing immeasurable amounts of power, unlike other Saiyans, Dragon Ball Super's iteration of Broly is a peaceful, kind-hearted warrior who only fights because his father orders him to and because he has difficulties controlling his vast power. Even Goku recognizes this as he tries to talk him out of fighting before befriending him in the end.
- Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai has Crocodine after he defected to the hero's party.
- Ooshima, the huge high school athlete from Emerging. Exemplified by his shy/loving relationship with his girlfriend Misaki whose only about half as tall and wide as the shoulder as her boyfriend, this couple make a very cute Huge Guy, Tiny Girl couple.
- Eyeshield 21 has Ryokan Kurita, the big, bulky, and kind-hearted center lineman of the Deimon Devil Bats. His teammates are terrified... of his hugs.
- "Beast Arm" Elfman from Fairy Tail.
- Makarov is an inversion. He's normally kind and gentle, when he's two feet tall, but when he uses his Titan Magic, it means he's about to kick someone's ass.
- Also Gildarts.
- Fist of the North Star:
- Fudoh, a giant Goshasei warrior that towers over even Raoh. Oh, and he's the gentle and loving caretaker of many orphaned children. Fudoh goes on to prove not only in size is he the bigger man, but is the first to truly instill fear in Raoh. The conversation that Foudoh has with Raoh is to the effect of him showing that his (Fudoh's) children are his REAL treasure and as such Raoh, whom believes that by the power of his Ken (fist) only the world will be changed, has absolutely nothing to match.
- Shuh and Toki also follow this trope to a less obvious degree, although not quite as tall.
- Fullmetal Alchemist:
- Alphonse Elric. A young boy whose soul is attached to a giant suit of armor, he is kind to everyone and loves cats, having a tendency of picking up strays and hiding them inside himself. When he does get riled up, he's at least as good a fighter as his brother...but his mind and soul are still those of a young boy. The armor makes it easy to forget that.
- Alex Louis Armstrong also fits this role like a glove. Despite his immense raw power and efficiency on the battlefield, ultimately, it's Armstrong's compassion for the enemy that's preventing him from ever being promoted. He is also easily moved to tears, and cares a great deal about the Elric brothers.
- Sig Curtis, a huge butcher and Mighty Glacier who's very Happily Married to the Elrics' Tsundere mentor Izumi, is also a total sweetheart... unless you threaten Izumi or someone he and Izumi care for, that is.
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex:
- Batou claims that shooting guns and hand to hand combat aren't really his strength, but that he really specializes in negotiation. Although this is not backed up by what we see in the series so it's more than likely that he was being sarcastic. Which becomes Hilarious in Hindsight if you consider his and Togusas visit to the Yakuza to "just talk" in Innocence. Less than ten seconds into the scene he start blowing the place apart with a belt-fed machine gun. Or the manga, where he casually tortures a bad guy brutally for information. He has more than his fair share of Pet the Dog moments. Big guy almost tears up a few times and his relationship with the Tachikomas, combined with babying them with natural oil, is implied to be what gives them ghosts.
- Ginga Densetsu Weed:
- Rocket. While not buff, he's very tall and one of the sweetest dogs in Weed's pack after his Heel–Face Turn.
- Ben also qualifies, as do the massive Fighting dogs Weed recruits to his team. In fact almost all the larger dogs on Weed's side qualify as this, while the smaller ones like Silver tend to be Tiny Terrors.
- Moss from the prequel, Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin, definitely qualifies. Despite his massive size (being an English Mastiff and all), he's extremely gentle towards the puppy Chibi (Tesshin) and treats him like a second son.
- Haikyuu!! has a few examples:
- Asahi Azumane from Karasuno. He's the biggest guy on the team and is subject to several awful rumors that he's a delinquent much older than he really is. And on the court, he is a viable threat. But anyone who knows him outside the sport knows he's an incredibly sensitive Lovable Coward who wouldn't hurt a fly, unlike his friend Nishinoya.
- Takanobu Aone from Date Tech. He's a silent, massive guy with a Face of a Thug who, unfortunately for his teammates, Does Not Know His Own Strength. Aone's a vicious opponent on the court, but he also shows visible concern for his team and forms an Odd Friendship with the rather little Hinata.
- Several first years also qualify, such as the Kanji Koganegawa from Date Tech and So Inuoka and Lev Haiba from Nekoma — all energetic and friendly. Another is Hyakuzawa from Kakugawa High, who's one of the tallest characters at over 2 meters tall, but is very soft-spoken and often compares his lack of experience in volleyball to other players.
- Jason Ozma from Hajime no Ippo looks like a huge Scary Black Man, but is extremely gentle and polite even to his rivals... Which leads to a hilarious scene in his introduction to Ippo.
- Zaitsu Misao of Hatsukoi Limited is a great example of this trope. He loves birds and small creatures, and is incredibly gentle except when forced to fight, but his immense size and death glare scare even the bravest critters away.
- Hello! Sandybell: Edward Lawrence was initially an aloof, asocial man, but after being touched by Sandybell's kindness when she visited him in the hospital, he became a supportive father figure to her and secretly protects her from various danger.
- In Hellsing, Father Alexander Anderson is an 8-foot tall Holy Hitman who functions as The Juggernaut for the Catholic Church and their legion of trained assassins. The majority of his time onscreen involves slaughtering vampires, regenerating hacked-off limbs, and going toe-to-toe with Alucard, Hellsing's nigh-invincible Eldritch Abomination. However, it's also shown that Anderson adores children and spends whatever time he's not hunting the undead back in Rome, where he runs an orphanage and plays surrogate father to dozens of children.
- The Daidarabochi from Hell Teacher Nube is a literal giant, over ten stories tall, with the supernatural ability to rearrange the topography of a region as though it had always been like that. Miki Hosokawa, one of Nube's students, is able to call on it for a little while in order to improve the landscape of Domori to her liking: such as widening the streets to make them safer, moving a construction site so it won't deprive some flowers of sunlight, and taking a communications tower from the city out to the countryside just so the baby birds nesting there have a better environment to grow up in. Unfortunately for her sanity, she's the only one who remembers the previous look of the city, so nobody (not even Nube) believes the story of Daidarabochi, at least until it saves her from falling when she tries to climb up to the nest herself.
- Hetalia: Axis Powers:
- Sweden is one of these, although most of the other countries don't notice because of his grunt-like speech pattern and constant deathglare/stoic expression. Basically, Sweden is a Huge Schoolgirl in the body of a Big Guy.
- It was the preferred fanon characterization for Cameroon, too. (Having a cute pet lion cub certainly helped). Then it became canon: the Christmas Event for 2010 mentions that he got captured when he was actually teaching how to play soccer to a bunch of kids from his land.
- The producer in the anime adaptation of THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls towers over most others and looks fearsome, but in actuality he's an awkward person who doesn't have much to say, and mostly acts kindly towards others.
- Gakushuu from Ikki Tousen: Big and muscle-bound, but really a nice guy with a fondness for sweets.
- Inuyasha:
- The hanyou Jinenji has a giant monstrous form due to his half-youkai heritage and yet all he wants to do is heal people.
- In the anime, Sesshoumaru's two-headed dragon-horse pet is turned into this. The anime gives him the name Ah-Un and turns him into a gentle herbivore despite his pointed teeth and ability to shoot lightning and energy blasts from both mouths.
- At age 20, Jonathan Joestar of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood is 195 centimeters (just under 6 feet 4 inches) and has the physique of a bodybuilder, but is a very kind-hearted gentleman and is willing to forgive almost anyone, the sole exception being Tarkus (who was extremely sadistic and only cared about killing). He even dies clutching Dio Brando's disembodied head and acknowledging him as a brother, despite the latter having made his life Hell since the two met. It's even reciprocated — when Jonathan dies, Dio looks absolutely heartbroken.
- Both twin sisters from Is Kichijoji the Only Place to Live? but Tomiko in particular. She looks very intimidating thanks to her height, size and blank expression but she wouldn't hurt a fly.
- Karakuri Circus: Narumi towers many people, he is big and muscular, but he is a kind man who fights for children and the weak.
- Muay Thai god of Death Apachai Hopachai, from Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple, has this trope's name carved in his forehead.
- Katai of Komi Can't Communicate is tall, intimidating, built like a wall...and one of the sweetest guys you could ever wish to meet.
- Just about any "cultured" Zentradi on Macross after the original Super Dimension Fortress Macross. Post-2009 humanity typically has no reaction to seeing a tall giant walking around.
- Especially shown in Macross Frontier, seeing as the majority of Zentradi tend to be average people who just happen to make normal-sized people look like dolls next to them. A specific example being Alto and Sheryl hanging out with Klan, with the former two having to be on a third story just to talk face to face with the latter.
- Lucy-May of the Southern Rainbow: Hercules is a kind, non-verbal Aboriginal Australian man who loves children and rescues little Lucy-May from drowning. He also plays with the Popple kids.
- Zafira of Lyrical Nanoha. A huge Wolf Man, and, if Vivio and Hayate are to be believed in the third Megami Sound Stage, someone who's really good with children. Considering the fact that he helps babysit Vivio in the anime, that's not hard to believe and as the Yagami family-centric M4 Sound Stage shows, he spends his free time playing around with the neighborhood kids and teaching them magic or martial arts (formally opening up a children's dojo by the time of ViVid). This is also the only time he's out of his wolf form after he joined the TSAB.
- Mission: Yozakura Family: Nanao is massive and imposing with Super-Strength to match, but he's also incredibly shy and kind.
- Mobile Suit Gundam Wing:
- Rashid Kurama from is the very tall, very badass, and very devoted leader of Quatre's group, the Magnac Corps.
- Argo Gulskii from Mobile Fighter G Gundam. Very smart, quiet, scary-looking — and the most level-headed, gentler of the Shuffle Alliance.
- Wolfgang Grimmer, from Monster; huge (primarily in height, but he is clearly very strong as well) and also an incredibly sweet-natured Woobie. Just... don't make him angry.
- Tionishia from Monster Musume is an eight-foot-tall ogre girl who also happens to be the friendliest and most personable member of her team, despite being their primary muscle. There's even an entire chapter devoted to her "calming aura", which all but sucks the stress and/or anger out of anyone spending time with her. In general Ogres, heavyweight Centaurs, Oni (who are generally smaller), Trolls (who are bigger and brawnier), long-legged Arachnes (but not other sub-species) and Gigantes (literal giants that stand on average 10 meters/ 32 feet) are extremely docile and the Gigantes largely spend their days sitting around wearing rags while they wait for something to do.
- Golem of Monster Rancher, for sure. A hulking, solid stone, superstrong animated statue that looks like a frowning samurai on steroids? But he's gentle, thoughtful (he's introduced carefully tending for a flower)...but, as with so many of his kind, he can get dangerous. Do not, under any circumstances, ever threaten anyone or anything that he cares for.
- Wakamatsu in Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun is a 6-foot-tall basketball player yet utterly naïve and sensitive, putting him to this.
- My Dress-Up Darling: Male lead Wakana Gojo stands 185 cm despite being only 15 years old and a first-year in high school. Also Shinju Inui, a Huge Schoolgirl who at 178 cm towers over everyone except Gojo despite still being a middle schooler. Both are characterized for their meek, shy and kind personalities.
- Takeo Goda, the main character of My Love Story!! is a high school student standing six-and-a-half feet tall, and is built like a gorilla (several bystanders and side-characters frequently likening him to a bear as well). He's also very careful and considerate, making sure to never use his size or strength to hurt anyone.
- My Monster Secret: Sakurada is one of the larger students, and also one of the nicest.
- Totoro in My Neighbor Totoro is a giant furry creature, and one of the sweetest souls around.
- Mu-Chun from The Mysterious Cities of Gold stands out as he is the tallest and largest of the Shaolin monks, as well as the most peaceable and kindest.
- Naruto:
- Juugo, when he's not in Axe-Crazy mode, is a Friend to All Living Things.
- Gantetsu, from the anime-only Shinobazu arc, rescues and protects the children orphaned by the Shinobazu gang (of which he is a member).
- Choza Akimichi (Choji's dad) also qualifies; he's one of the bigger characters in Naruto and is a badass on the battlefield, but off it, he's very kind and gentle.
- Choji himself counts, being a somewhat dim and very bottomless yet also extremely loyal boy who is NOT FAT, JUST BIG BONED! He still has room to physically grow even more, since he's just 16-17 in Shippuden. In the sequel series Boruto he's shown pretty doting to his daughter Chocho.
- The Ohmu from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind are whale-sized Big Creepy-Crawlies who look terrifying, but are quite docile and friendly and have the power to resurrect people. Unless you provoke them to attack...
- Ouran High School Host Club:
- Ritsu Kasanoda. He's a scary looking Yakuza heir who has a soft spot for living things and takes up gardening because his face frightens animalsnote .
- Mori is tall and intimidating in terms of appearance, but he's actually quite gentle; this is lampshaded by Tamaki, who points out that his adorable cousin Hunny, whom he spends a lot of time with, is a clear visual indicator that he's nicer than he looks. Mori also loves animals and takes care of a little chick and later an orphaned tanuki in the manga, and among the Host Club's patrons, his fans tend to be shy girls who find his quiet, steady stoicism reassuring.
- One Piece:
- Most giants take after the Vikings in their behavior. However, we have an exception in Jaguar D. Saul, a giant Nico Robin met in her childhood. Though he still had a fighting role as a Marine Vice-Admiral, he was a fair and compassionate individual overall. Just as the trope describes, when he finally got angry, he began tossing around battleships.
- Post timeskip, we get Shirahoshi, a mermaid princess that's probably of comparable size to the Thousand Sunny. She's polite, docile, and harmless. Except she can control Sea Kings.
- Even the leaders of the Giant Warrior Pirates, Dorry and Broggy, can be considered examples of this trope. Outside of battle, they are incredibly nice, jovial fellows, only getting angry when their sense of honor or friends are threatened.
- There's Franky and Brook, the two largest members of the Straw Hat pirates. The former is a massive, super-manly cyborg who cries easily and the latter is a giant human skeleton who hasn't got a mean bone in his body (yohohoho).
- Franky's mentor, Tom, a giant cowfish Fish-man. He's incredibly kind and jolly and even took in Franky and Iceburg as his apprentices/adoptive sons. Despite this, in his very first appearance he is seen throwing a giant ship into the air and throwing the three masts like spears right into it.
- Jimbei's a freakin' 9'8 whale shark Fish-man, and is one of the Straw Hat Pirates' closest allies and even joins the crew during Wano. Also happens to be a former Warlord, and the nicest of all of them.
- Papa Panda from Panda! Go Panda! is huge and a little scary before he really appears, but he's actually really friendly and even offers to be Mimiko's father.
- Tragically, Oz himself as the chain B-Rabbit from PandoraHearts. He's used by Jack for his immense Abysmal power to slaughter countless people against his will and eventually to destroy the chains supporting the world, essentially causing The End of the World as We Know It. However, all he ever wanted to do was protect Alice, who loved him when he was only a stuffed rabbit doll and gave him a name and place to belong. Later, Jack gets called out on his mistreatment of him by Alice herself, just before she takes her own life to keep Jack from using Oz further.Alice: How can you be so utterly unaffected? Can't you see it? Can't you hear it? Can't you see Oz screaming through his tears?
- Pokémon: The Series:
- Ash's Muk is a foul-smelling Blob Monster that loves to hug people (especially Professor Oak, its primary caretaker).
- Ash's larger Pokemon like Snorlax, Torterra, Goodra, Melmetal, and Naganadel follow this trend.
- The Dragonite in Blackthorn City is really friendly, but is still a dangerous fighter, as the episode Great Bowls of Fire will tell you.
- Subverted by Iris's Dragonite, a Perpetual Frowner Blood Knight contrary to the rest of its species.
- Played straight again by Ash's Dragonite in the 2019 series, who is a 7 foot Cuddle Bug.
- In "Charizard's Burning Ambition", the largest Charizard in the Charicific Valley was said to be the most docile, until Ash's own Charizard tried to pick a fight with it.
- Ash's Muk is a foul-smelling Blob Monster that loves to hug people (especially Professor Oak, its primary caretaker).
- The Prince of Tennis:
- Choutarou Ohtori (sweet, quiet, gentle violinist and the sensitive guy to Shishido's Manly Man... in a way) and Munehiro Kabaji (Atobe's closest friend from childhood time, very close to his older sister). Both are members of the Hyoutei team.
- A harsher version is Gin Ishida from the Shitenhouji team. Tall, muscled, shaved bald, fearsome, ruthless in tennis... as well as very honor bound, always bowing quietly before a match and facing Takashi Kawamura at full strength to honor his rival's fierce resolution to finish the match despite a Game-Breaking Injury. His younger brother Tetsu, who plays for Fudomine, is a very soft-spoken and amiable young man who becomes quite Hot-Blooded in game.
- Kabaji. He is 193 cms at age 13, but he's very quiet and polite, and in one of the anime specials he was very depressed when his dear older sister announced her marriage. He's also said to be very good at domestic stuff in the info books.
- Adam from The Promised Neverland, while abnormally muscular and able to hulk out on the demons when he or his friends are threatened, is generally very kind. Many panels show him interacting very gently with the runaway children, like lifting them up to reach a tall shelf or carrying them on his massive shoulders.
- Randall from Pumpkin Scissors is gentle by default, though he can drive himself berserk by lighting the lantern he carries. In the anime, the only time he's seen even trying to fight when not berserk is when protecting his commanding officer.
- Maggie Mui from Read or Die tops the charts at six feet and one inch in height, and being an expert at manipulating paper. She also happens to be a big Shrinking Violet who likes reading and sleeping in cozy places.
- Remy: Nobody's Girl: Vitalis is an Italian street performer who towers over most other chatacrers, but saves little Remy from Human Traffickers and adopts her.
- Rurouni Kenshin: Fuji is a genuinely gentle guy (his first flash back moment in the anime involves him placing a bird back into its nest) who was nearly shot to death by scared guards simply because he was so massive (like, towering over buildings) that he freaked people out, and was manipulated by a cunning old man into fighting for one of the villains. Once he's free from the others' control thanks to Warrior Therapist Hiko Seijuurou, Fuji cuts a deal with the Meiji government and becomes a rural guard in Hokkaido, finally getting the peaceful life he has yearned for.
- Makoto Kino/Sailor Jupiter from Sailor Moon is a Huge School Girl, The Big Gal in her Five Woman Band, and is very, very strong. Despite her history of being a supposed delinquent and her aggressiveness in battle, she is actually very sweet and emphatic. Not to mention being a Chef of Iron (Ordinary type), a good housekeeper (just look at how quickly she made short work of Motoki's messy flat!), and a Mama Bear (don't you DARE bully her friends! and if you're an enemy, do NOT touch her 'band!).
- Saturn Apartments has Mr. Kageyama, a huge guy who loves children and is a nice dude in general.
- Taiju Togakushi from Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion Z drives the strongest of the Shinkalion Zs, but is decidedly shy and soft-spoken, especially outside of battle.
- Slam Dunk:
- The main character, Hanamichi Sakuragi. He's an ex delinquent and looks really scary, but he's very gentle and respectful towards women and, if he likes you, he'll be your friend through thick and thin. Just make sure to not anger him and you can't have a better friend than him.
- Jun Uozumi from Ryonan High, so much. When not in the basket courts, that is. He even was a Weeping Willow in his first year, bullied by his lack of skill to the point of breaking down in tears in front of Team Dad Taoka, who gave him a Rousing Speech to give him his strength back.
- Mikio Kawata, whose frequently scolded for not being aggressive enough.
- Mana from Superdreadnought Girl 4946 is just under 50m in height, but is still just a teenage girl on the inside.
- Kazuichi Banjou from Tokyo Ghoul. A tall and heavily built Ghoul, he comes across as a dangerous tough guy when first introduced... but is quickly revealed to be a kindhearted pacifist and Team Dad to pretty much everyone he meets.
- Tatsuya's boxing buddy Shohei Harada in Touch (1981). He's big, tough, intimidating, and isn't into anything gentle or "feminine" but he has a real heart of gold.
- Voltes V: Daijiro is The Big Guy and a martial artist. He also really loves puppies and brings one to the base in episode 33, correctly asserting that it was an orphan, just like him.
- Takashi "Jumbo" Takeda from the Yotsuba&! manga is a really big guy, but he's friendly and quite harmless... except when he feels he's been exploited or tricked, like when he asked Yotsuba to invite Asagi to a water park but she only brings Fuka and Ena, causing an angry outburst when Fuka tries to take the flowers he had brought for Asagi. He's never actually tried to hurt anyone, but he can be kinda scary...
- In Zatch Bell!, one of the book keepers is a huge guy, whom Kiyomaro initially thinks of as the "demon". Turns out he's a nice, shy boy being manipulated by the demon (who turns out to be the nice looking boy and wants to blow up the big guy's old school) because the big guy was picked on as a kid and didn't have the personal strength to stand up to his bullies.
