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[[caption-width:250:Who's the boss? How could we possibly guess?]]

->"I'm da biggest, so I'm da boss!"
-->-- '''Ork Warboss''', ''{{Warhammer 40000}}: DawnOfWar''

** Well, no. Nobody knows what the Emperor looked like, they only saw what he wanted them to see: An old man, a giant golden warrior etc. Physically, it is hinted the Emperor is less than intimidating.

** And also subverted by Luffy, being the captain, but shorter than Zoro, Sanji, Franky and Brooke. Even Robin is taller than him.

** On the evil side of things, most [[EliteMook myrdraal]] are human sized or slightly taller. [[TheDragon Shaidar Haran]], the most powerful member of that race (and possible avatar of the BigBad) is almost half again as big. This is explicitly noted by the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Forsaken]] when they first meet Haran.

* King Louis XVIII of France was known for being incredibly obese.

* ''MegaManX 4'' includes General, the... er... General of the Repliforce, who towers over everyone else. He's as tall as a house. One wonders just how he got into his boss room.
* In the MegaMan games, Dr. Wily isn't much taller than Mega Man himself or the Robot Masters. He does, however, usually pilot a giant machine as the end boss of the game.

** Subverted with the Blackbeard pirate San Juan Wolf, who is the ''biggest person in the damn series,''... and he still takes his orders from the eleven foot tall (SEE?!) Marshall D. Teach.

** Subverted with the Blackbeard pirate San Juan Wolf, who is the ''biggest person in the damn series,''... and he still takes his orders from only sort of large Marshall D. Teach.

** And then there's Luffy, being the captain, but towered by Zoro, Sanji, Franky and Brooke.

* In WatershipDown, the largest rabbit is almost always the leader of their warren. General Woundwart, for instance, is described as approaching the size of a hare and is immensely strong. [[spoiler: The protagonists end up being an exception, with the average-sized Hazel being the Chief Rabbit.]] In fact, Woundwart [[spoiler: assumes Bigwig to be the chief because of his size, and is disturbed when it turns out he isn't -- Bigwig is at this point successfully fighting him off. He assumed the chief rabbit was even bigger]]

* ''Homestuck'''s Skaia Battleground is based on a chess game, except both Kings are mutated humanoids the size of mountains, each wielding a scepter the size of a building.

* Tsuruya's father in [[KyonBigDamnHero Kyon: Big Damn Hero]] is explicitly mentioned as being larger than his daughter's bodyguard, who's large as it is. [[spoiler:He's also in charge of the largest {{Yakuza}} group in the story.]]

* TerryPratchett's ''{{Discworld}}'' novel ''[[Discworld/MenAtArms Men at Arms]]'' subverts this. With the leader of a savage dog pack purported to be menacing, lethal, and incredibly dangerous, you come to assume he's going to be one big dog, [[spoiler: but it turns out that he's basically a Jack Russel that wets himself near constantly and is more than a little insanely psychopathic.]]
** Really? [[spoiler: I always got the idea that Big Fido was a rather battered toy poodle. And insanely psychopathic. The parallels to Hitler were also rather obvious.]]
*** Now, granted, either way he ''is'' an incredibly dangerous dog...he's just not, you know, a Newfoundland or anything like that. More like Jerry's dog that would occasionally pop up in Tom & Jerry cartoons (You know, the one that was even smaller than Jerry and whose main shtick was to reduce Tom to a cat-shaped string of kitty sausages).

*** Don't forget that if an ork is in charge, the WAaAAGH will make him grow faster, which makes him higher in the hierarchy, which makes him grow faster...
*** Exemplified by Grand Warlord Ghazghkull "Mad Uruk" Thraka, self-proclaimed Prophet of Waaagh!, who is about [[http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/9/98/Ghazghkull_vs_Yarrick.jpg three times the size of the average ork.]]

**Somewhat justified in that OnePiece has actual giants running around. Presumably the unusually large characters have some giant somewhere in their ancestry. Or Oda has a really bad sense of scale.
***I think he said that some humans randomly turn out to be absolutely humongous, such as the case with Whitebeard. So a lot of the giant humans are like that. It appears that even giants can grow humongous for their species, such is the case of Oars and Oars Jr., who absolutely dwarf other giants.