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Playing With: Statuesque Stunner
Basic Trope: A woman who is very, very tall.
  • Straight: Alice is around 6'3" tall.
  • Exaggerated: Alice is around 3 stories tall.
  • Downplayed: Alice is around 5'9" tall
  • Justified:
    • Alice has legs so long that it makes her taller.
    • Her ancestors were tall people, so Alice is of this height.
    • Alice is a boss enemy. Since the previous bosses were large, she is large as well.
  • Inverted:
    • Alice is a dwarf who is around 3 feet tall.
    • Her enemies are the ones who are taller than her.
  • Subverted: Alice is of normal height...
  • Double Subverted: ...only to be revealed to have the ability to become taller!
  • Parodied: She is so tall that she has a lot of trouble getting some room to move around.
  • Zig Zagged: Alice is around 8'5" tall, but she has trouble when going indoors due to its tight space. But when she is outside, she can fight freely without problems, but when she tries to ride a car, she is unable due to her height, but she is able to ride a cruiser due to its size.
  • Averted: Alice isn't tall at all.
  • Enforced: She is designed for appealing gamers that likes taller women.
  • Lampshaded: "You're... so... TALL!"
  • Invoked: Professor Drachenstein invented a serum that would power up his mooks. He uses this on Alice and she grows into an 8 feet tall woman to go after Bob.
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: She turned back to normal after being defeated by Bob
  • Discussed: "Dude, who could have thought that amazon would have been that tall!"
  • Conversed: "I'm still wondering... how come there are pictures of woman taller than men?"
  • Deconstructed:
    • Alice isn't all that tall.
    • Alternately, due to her height, she suffers an illness caused by her sudden growth, and she needs to be operated so she can stop growing to cure the illness.
  • Reconstructed: But she becomes so used to it that the illness isn't much of a threat.
  • Played For Laughs: Alice is so tall that she clumsily ends up accidentally banging her head on the door frames repeatedly or even getting stuck on small objects.
  • Played For Drama: Alice is shunned for being tall, and is called a freak. She just wants to have some friends.

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