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In my opinion, making teens short to show that they're legally children makes as little sense as giving people in their twenties wrinkles to show they're legally adults.
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But it's not about showing they are "legally children", but that they are neither children nor adults (usually the children are smaller yet). In a visual medium, it helps to give the audience a visual shorthand for important information, and a character's age category (typically shows will sort everyone into baby, child, teenager, young adult, middle-aged and elderly) is very important information.
Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.
Can someone who knows this franchise say if this even is an example, or if it just is badly worded and needs to be rewritten?
- The Legend of Zelda: The majority of the Link incarnations are shown to be this. Even with his latest known age being 17 1/2, Link is mostly depicted as being no taller than Princess Zelda.
If the Zelda character is a Statuesque Stunner as the pothole says, then Link being "no taller" than her doesn't say anything right? He could still be above-average height and thus not an example.
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I don't think Zelda is unusually tall, or at least the BOTW and SS ones that the entry most likely references to.
I'm seeing some examples about a particular character who is a teen and is shorter than all the other characters, including other teen. Is this appropriate use? I thought the trope was about a teen-adult height contrast.
Also, is there an age cutoff? Examples where characters are 12 years old or so don't seem like proper use, since many 12-year olds, especially the boys, are still well below their adult height.
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Couple things: A thirteen year old, especially a boy, being shorter than most adults isn't unreasonable at all. Boys grow slower. When i was thirteen i was only 5'3-5'4. A an adult, i'm 6'2-6'3. Also, you should probably keep comparisons in the same gender. A fully grown woman is usually no more than 5'5 before being considered tall, and that a average height for a full grown male is about 5'9.
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When Degrassi started, was Emma already taller than Spike? If not, does anyone know when she got taller?
I've heard it said that Daniel Radcliffe was fortunate to remain relatively short through the filming of the Harry Potter movies, as his actual height didn't make him too tall to be believable in the part.
Renamed from Teens Are Short per TRS:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16887575770.39460100
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