Small Parent, Huge Child

"Tiny little bloke, my dad was. By the time I was six I could lift him up an' put him on top o' the dresser if he annoyed me. Used ter make him laugh..."

— Rubeus Hagrid, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

A character is noticeably larger than one or more of their parents. Often Played for Laughs, but can sometimes be Played for Drama. Either way, it's often used for irony since we expect younger characters to be smaller than older characters. Can be justified if the child is the result of Interspecies Adoption or if their parents just have a significant size difference themselves.

Despite the name, the character doesn't literally have to be a child. This is especially common if the character is an adult and the parents are Miniature Senior Citizens. If the character was born that large, then it can lead to Fridge Horror as to how the small biological mother gave birth to them.

Can overlap with Tiny Guy, Huge Girl for father-daughter pairings, and Huge Guy, Tiny Girl for mother-son pairings. See Big Little Brother for a sibling variation. Contrast Pint-Sized Kid, Short Teens, Tall Adults, and Gigantic Adults, Tiny Babies.

This is a lot more common in real life than you'd expect for various reasons—younger generations having access to better nutrition than their parents, a recessive tall gene in the family, etc. Thus, listing real life examples would be pointless. As many children reach their adult height as teens, it's not uncommon to see a mother with a teenage son who's One Head Taller than her.

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Examples:

Advertising

• One televised commercial for Hungry Jack pancakes has a loving mother prepare a large stack of pancakes for her son, who is clearly a giant lumberjack. His head is well above the camera view, and his mother barely comes up to his knee.
• One Swiffer commercial has a diminutive mother making her very tall teenage sons clean up after themselves. The boys clearly get their height from their father, who likewise towers over his wife.

Anime & Manga

• The Dangers in My Heart: Sanae Yamada is around the same height as the average japanese women (158 cm). Her 14 year-old daughter, Anna Yamada, is about a head taller than her mother at 171.9 cm. Thanks to her dad's genes.
• Deltora Quest: The Evil Sorceress, Thaegan, has 13 monsters as her children, the youngest of them, Ichabod, being the largest and strongest, absolutely dwarfing his siblings, mother, and all the heroes.
• Fullmetal Alchemist: Major Alex Louis Armstrong is bigger than both his parents in different ways: his mother is tall with a very thin frame, while his father is short and stocky. Alex inherited his mother's height and his father's muscle.
• Inuyasha: Jineji, a hanyo the group meets on their journey, positively towers over his human mother. He's also extremely strong and very homely, factors that cause the villagers he lives near to blame him for several deaths in the area. Fortunately, he's a Gentle Giant and quite good with medicinal herbs, a fact that helps get them to warm up to him when the truth comes out.
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Joseph Joestar stands at 195 cm and towers over his mother and grandmother. Likewise, his grandson Jotaro is the same height and is taller than his mother. Also, Joseph's son Josuke is 180 cm in height, making him taller than his mother and maternal grandfather.
• Medaka Box: Zenkichi absolutely towers over his mother Hitomi. In her introduction, she's mistaken for his little sister.
• Midori Days: One dojo owner looks like a junior-high girl, while his son is bigger than any other character in the series.
• One Piece:
  • All of Otohime's children grew up to be taller than her, with her shortest child Manboshi being more than twice her height. The tallest child, Shirahoshi, was already bigger than Otohime when she was less than a year old, and as a teen, Shirahoshi is over 30 feet taller than her mother. None of the children are bigger than their giant-sized father Neptune, though.
  • By age five, Charlotte Linlin was already several times larger than her average-sized parents. She was too big and strong for her parents to handle, so they abandoned her on Elbaf in hopes that the giants living there would be able to take care of her.
  • Edward Weevil is exactly 10 times the size of his mother, Miss Bakkin, who is just over 2 feet tall. He's also about a foot taller than his alleged father Edward Newgate, better known as Whitebeard.
• In Trigun, the unnamed father of the Nebraska family is small enough to be carried in his son Gofsef's breast pocket. The mother Patricia and daughter Marilyn invert this, with the latter carried in the former's pocket instead.

Comic Books

• Dungeon Twilight: Marvin's son Baal is enormous, being at least twice as tall and wide as either of his parents.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: In almost every incarnation of the comics, movies and shows (except the 2012 animated series), the turtles tower over their father/rat sensei, Splinter.
• In Top 10, Jeff Smax and his sister Rexa were raised by a dwarven couple, and thus are much taller than either of them.
• Downplayed with Daken. He is a whole head taller than his famously-short father Wolverine, but this merely places him at 5'9, and Wolvie is still a good deal stockier.

Comic Strips

• Thorax from 9 Chickweed Lane is a bit taller than average and very corpulent, while his Pap is an ancient, shriveled old man who's no more than four feet tall.
• Momma, as drawn by Mell Lazarus, is a diminutive lady with three children: Thomas, Francis, and Marylou. Even wearing a hat, Momma doesn't stand as high as her daughter's waist. She's about eye level with her sons' thighs. Her children still respect her, though, because Momma wields guilt like a club.

Fan Works

• Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): Vivienne Graham's elderly mother and San's adoptive mother Susan was shorter than her daughter even when Vivienne was human (bear in mind that Vivienne herself wasn't very tall), to say nothing of after San fuses with Vivienne to form a 100-foot Two Beings, One Body Titan.
• The Accidental Warlord And His Pack: Jan is 5'7" and Julita was taller than him by the time she turned sixteen.
• Pokémon Reset Bloodlines: As a result ot being aged up to 15 years in the new timeline, Ash Ketchum has already outgrown his mother Delia by the time he begins his Pokémon journey. And since he comes back home with some extra muscle and height just after a few months, we can assume this trope will be in full effect in a few years.
• Total Drama Legacy:
  • Storm is stated to be much taller than her father Cameron. Though given that Cameron is the shortest Total Drama contestant ever, that's not much of a high bar to clear. Especially considering she was created using DNA technology (so her genes may have been tampered with in utero), and her other dad, Lightning, is quite tall.
  • A more extreme example is the seven-foot behemoth Link, who towers over his father Sam. It's clear that Link takes after his mother Dakota.

Films — Animation

• Dinosaur: Justified; due to being an Iguanodon, Aladar is enormous compared to his lemur adopted parents Plio and Yar.
• Encanto: Luisa, the musclebound Gentle Giant with Super-Strength, towers over everyone else in the Madrigal family, and this includes her parents Julieta and Agustín. Because the Madrigal family's house granted its inhabitants various powers, it's implied that the house's magic made Luisa bigger than her parents to accommodate her strength.
• Fire & Ice: The hulking, semi-human Otwa is roughly nine feet tall, but his mother, Roliel the forest witch, is the size of a standard-issue human. Makes one wonder who or what his father was.
• Frozen (2013): Kristoff was raised by trolls. Because he is a human, he is naturally taller than his adoptive mother, Bulda.
• Ice Age: The Meltdown: A flashback reveals that Ellie was raised by possums. Naturally, being a mammoth, she is gargantuan compared to them, including the mother possum, even as a young calf.
• Jack and the Beanstalk (1974): Tulip is a giant who easily dwarfs all the other characters, including his evil mother Madame Hecuba. She is tall, but nowhere near the size of her gigantic son.
• Mrs. Krum and Mr. Ellingboe in Klaus (2019) are two average-sized adults. However, Mrs. Krum's son Olaf and Mr. Ellingboe's daughter Pumpkin are enormous brutes that tower over the entire town of Smeerensburg.
• Po the panda is enormous compared to his adoptive goose father Mr. Ping in the Kung Fu Panda series.
• Mr. Peabody & Sherman: Downplayed; Sherman is Mr. Peabody's adopted human son who is only a little taller than him.
• The Princess and the Frog: The three frog hunters are lead by the very short Reggie whose two sons tower over him.
• Song of the Sea: The short elderly witch Macha has a mountain-sized giant son named Mac Lir.
• Spirited Away: Yubaba's son Boh is a massive baby, twice the height of his mother. They're ageless spirits, and he can speak in full sentences, so one could say that he's "actually" an adult who looks this way because of his immaturity and Yubaba's coddling.
• Cody's brother Glen Maverick in Surf's Up is larger than both Cody and their mother Edna.
• Tarzan II: Uto and Kago are huge gorillas who are huger and more muscular than their mother Gunda (who is also a gorilla).
• In Turning Red, when it comes to giant red panda forms, Ming's is kaiju-sized whereas her mother's is merely elephant-sized.
• You Are Umasou: Tyrannosaurus rex Heart is quite a bit larger than his adoptive mother, a Maiasaura. In real life, Tyrannosaurus was about ten feet longer, and the animals were probably a similar weight.

Films — Live-Action

• Avengers: Age of Ultron: Ultron's body is twice the size of an average human, so naturally he's a lot bigger than his "fathers" Tony Stark and Bruce Banner (when the latter isn't Hulking Out at least).
• Bumblebee: Charlie Watson (played by Hailee Steinfeld, who is 5'8") is around 8 inches taller than her mother, Sally (played by Pamela Adlon, who is 5'0").
• Elf: Buddy is a human raised by Christmas elves, and is gigantic compared to his adoptive father figure Papa Elf.
• Grown Ups: Rob Hilliard is noticeably shorter than his daughter Jasmine. It should be noted that Rob's actor Rob Schneider is 5'3, while Jasmine's actress Madison Riley is 5'9.
• Honey, I Blew Up the Kid: Due to a mishap with a growth ray, Wayne Szalinski's toddler son is turned into a giant that towers over him.
• Popeye: Mrs. Oxheart is a seemingly frail, bent old lady. Her son Oxblood Oxheart is a mountain of a man (and a Mighty Glacier in the boxing ring). He's still an unabashed Momma's Boy.
• Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot: According to IMDb, muscular Sylvester Stallone, who plays the police sergeant Joe Bomowski, is 5'9½, fairly average height, yes. But his overbearing mother Tutti is played by petite Estelle Getty who was a full 11 inches shorter than him at 4'10½.
• Terminator:
  • Terminator Genisys: John Connor, here played by the 6'1'' Jason Clarke, naturally towers over his mother Sarah Connor (played by Emilia Clarke) whose head comes up to his chin. Although to be fair, In-Universe Sarah is barely out of her teens whereas her son is in his late 40s, due to Time Travel.
  • Terminator: Dark Fate: Grace Harper, played by the 5'8'' Mackenzie Davis, towers over her adoptive mother Dani Ramos in the past.
• Thir13en Ghosts: The Great Child and the Dire Mother are the ghosts of a 3-foot-tall sideshow performer and her enormous adult son.
• The Wolf Man (1941): Sir John Talbot, played by Claude Rains, is about 5'7" and relatively slim while his son Larry is played by the 6'2" and burly Lon Chaney Jr..

Literature

• Discworld:
  • Being a human raised by dwarfs, Carrot is much taller than both his parents and all the other dwarfs.
  • Mrs. Atkinson in Unseen Academicals is a vicious little old lady who is a particularly problematic presence in the Shove. She's able to be away with this because of her absolutely gargantuan son who threatens swift reprisal on his mother's behalf. This ultimately doesn't save her when she makes the mistake of poisoning the Librarian.
  • Mrs Cake, the "medium verging on small" in Reaper Man, and her daughter Ludmilla, who is one of those large, shy people who spend much of their life trying not to loom. (This is because Ludmilla's a werewolf.)
  • Nanny Ogg is a small, round lady. Her son Jason is a blacksmith who looks like he was constructed rather than born.
• Earth's Children:
  • Ayla is adopted by a Neanderthal woman, Iza, with Iza's brother Creb also helping to raise her. Neanderthals tend to be much shorter than Cro-Magnon and Ayla is also considered taller than average even by the latter's standards (as an adult she stands nearly six feet tall), so by the time Ayla is in her preteens she towers over her mother and uncle (along with everyone else in her clan).
  • Jerika is a very short woman (little more than five feet tall) who married a very tall man (Dalanar is around 6'6"). Their daughter Joplaya takes after her father in terms of height; while she's not quite as tall as her father she's still much taller than her mother.
• One of Frank Herrmann's stories about The Giant Alexander features his parents, who are normal-sized humans (the story explains that Alexander was born an ordinary human before an encounter with a wizard resulted in him growing to over 50 feet tall).
• It is mentioned in Harrison Bergeron that the titular character is seven feet tall at 14, clearly much taller than both of his parents.
  • In Richard Matheson's The Incredible Shrinking Man, Scott Carey's 5 year old daughter Beth is said to be 4 foot 1 at one point. When he's doll sized, she carries him to his dollhouse, squeezing him. She doesn't quite understand having a powerful, authoritative father who is dwindling in size.
• Harry Potter: Being half-giant, Hagrid positively towers over his more diminutive father. There's even a picture of a child Hagrid happily hefting his proud papa up on his shoulder the day they got Hagrid's acceptance letter from Hogwarts.
• The Little Father: Invoked and exaggerated. Mr. Master drinks Indian ink, which causes him to shrink until he's small enough to fit inside his son Michael's pocket. Note that Michael is the size of a regular boy his age.
• Mary Poppins and the movie based on the books feature a woman named Mrs. Correy, who is only about 5'2", but has two adult daughters, who are about 6'4".
• Outlander: Lord John is raising William who towers over Lord John's own 5'6", a height which makes John shorter than average for the 18th century. William's height would be eyebrow raising save for the fact that it's well known that William is in fact John's stepson, born of a union between John's deceased sister-in-law and her also deceased husband. However, Lord John's family is not overly surprised when they later find out that William was actually sired by the 6'4" Jamie Fraser, not the much shorter Ludovic Ransom.
• The Saga of Arrow-Odd: Odd, a normal-sized human viking (if long-lived), has a half-giant son named Vignir. By the time they first meet Vignir is already far taller than his father.
• The Scholomance: Gwen Higgins is described as a 'petite, pink, English rose', where her daughter Galadriel matched her height at age nine and is five-foot-ten-and-still-growing by the end of her junior year.
• A Song of Ice and Fire: Daenerys' dragons, whom she explicitly considers her children after hatching their eggs, naturally count once they grow beyond their human mother's size.
• Worlds of Power: The adaptation of Ninja Gaiden shows that Asami Hayabusa has to stand on her tiptoes in order to match her son Ryu's height. Keep in mind that Ryu here is only 13.
• In The Ugly American, it's mentioned that Major James "Tex" Wolchek's parents were "short, dark, and small-muscled" Lithuanian immigrants while their sons, having grown up in Texas, were much taller and more muscular than their parents thanks to a childhood in which they were better-fed.

Live-Action TV

• The Addams Family: Lurch is 6′9″, but the episode "Mother Lurch Visits" reveals that his mother is very short.
• The Boys (2019): "Butcher, Baker and Candlestick Maker" shows Butcher is taller than both his parents, especially his mother who barely comes up to his collarbone.
• Check It Out! With Dr. Steve Brule: Steve Brule's mom, Doris Pringle-Brule, is positively tiny compared to him. In the "Bagboy" special, Steve gets down on his knees to hug her, and he's still a bit taller.
• The Conners: More of an accident than anything, but both David and Darlene were of distinctly below-average height, making it a shock that the actor cast as their son Mark shot up like a beanstalk. Jackie at one point jokingly calls him twelve feet tall.
• CSI: In "A Little Murder", an attendee of a Little Person's convention is found dead, apparently from suicide by hanging. Turns out, he was murdered by another attendee, the father of an average-size daughter who was in love with the victim and was planning to marry him. Her actress is 5′7″ and her father (whose actor is 3′6″) didn't want her to spend the rest of her life or raise children with a Little Person, plus the guy was cheating on her. (The young lady's mother was also a Little Person, but had passed away before the events of the episode.)
• Don't Hug Me I'm Scared: In the episode "Family", when Lilly and Todney's brother and father are introduced, it's initially assumed that the taller figure is the father and the smaller figure glued to his video game is the brother. However, it's revealed that it's actually the other way around.
• On The Golden Girls, Dorothy is at least a foot taller than her mother, Sophia. While this can be partly attributed to Sophia being a Miniature Senior Citizen, flashback episodes show that Dorothy has always been considerably taller than Sophia. Dorothy's younger sister Gloria is nearly as tall as Dorothy, and their brother Phil is noted to be over 6 feet, so they qualify, too. Even stranger is that Sophia's late husband was also very short, raising more questions about how the two of them consistently produced such tall children.
• How I Met Your Mother: Marvin, according to Future-Ted, grew up to be bigger than his mother, Lily. Alyson Hannigan is 5′4″. Future-Ted noted that Marvin grew up to be 6′7″, even taller than his father, Marshall, the "runt" of the Eriksen family at 6′4″.
• Little People Big World: The Roloff family features Lew and Matt (mom and dad) who are both 4′1″. The couple has fraternal twins, Zach (4′4″) and Jeremy (6′1″), a daughter, Molly, (5′7″), and youngest son, Jacob, who was not finished growing when he exited the series but was growing at an average rate of height.
• The Love Boat: "The Little People" concerns a dwarf couple, played by Billy Barty and Patty Maloney, whose adult son is of normal stature.
• Touched by an Angel: The episode "A Clown's Prayer" involves a dwarf with a regular-sized son who's embarrassed by him.

Mythology & Religion

• Paul Bunyan: Even as a baby, Paul was said to dwarf not only his parents but everyone around him. They had to feed the baby using a hose and a water tower as a bottle.

Professional Wrestling

• Dominik Mysterio, at 6 feet 1 inch and 200 pounds, is on the small side of average size for a pro wrestler. Nonetheless he towers over his 5 foot 6 and 175 pound father Rey Mysterio Jr..

Puppet Shows

• The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss: In the first Seuss Story in "Lester Leaps In", the Cat in the Hat shows the viewers the kind of families that live in the Wubbulous World. In the Jungle of Nool, one such family consists of two Sneels and a baby Fribbermaggee. While the Sneels are small creatures, the baby Fribbermaggee is much bigger than them. The Cat reveals that the baby Fribbermaggee was the size of a mouse when the two Sneels first found him and decided to adopt him.

Video Games

• Croc: As shown in the opening cutscene of Legend of the Gobbos, a fully-grown Croc is bigger than his adoptive father King Rufus and the other Gobbos that raised him.
• God of War Ragnarök has this dynamic between Odin and Thor where the latter is significantly bigger than his own father who himself is only as tall as a regular human male and is visibly a head shorter than Kratos when they're standing together.
• A (very) downplayed case in The King of Fighters. Kyo Kusanagi, who stands at 181cm^note  5'11" is slightly taller than his father Saisyu, who is 177cm^note  5'10" . It's not that much of a difference, but it doesn't change the fact that Kyo is slightly taller than his father.
• Pokémon: This trope applies to every hatchling belonging to a species whose size exceeds or dwarfs their parents'. For instance, the (fully-evolved) love child of Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action can be 200 times larger than daddy Skitty (if the mother is a Wailord) or 200 times smaller than daddy Wailord (if the mother is a Skitty). This can also be invoked by the fact that many base-evolution Pokemon can still breed, so a player can breed a base level Pokemon, then proceed to level and evolve the child instead of the parent. This is enforced with the Nidoran group; the second and third female forms, Nidorina and Nidoqueen, cannot breed.
• Resident Evil Village: Though only an adopted child, who is secretly at best regarded by her mother as a "false child" to boot; Lady Dimitrescu naturally towers over Mother Miranda due to the inhuman height her mutation caused her to reach.
• Risk of Rain 2 reveals that the Parents and Children of the previous game (the sequel only having the former) have this relationship; the supposed Parents are actually the overprotective spawn of the more elderly Children, and their lifecycle just has them shrink after passing through a Grandparent stage, which is much bigger and fought as a boss in 2.
• In Silver, the titular Big Bad's son Fuge is much bigger than his father.

Web Animation

• Happy Tree Friends: In "Cubtron Z", Cub becomes a robot who is way bigger than Pop.
• Loona the hellhound in Helluva Boss towers over all of her fellow imp crewmates at I.M.P., including her adoptive father, Blitzo.

Webcomics

• Brawl in the Family: One strip features a big bulky Nidoking venting to his base form, a male Nidoran, about how he feels he grew up too quickly by taking the Moon Stone and how now he'll never do things he could have done before. The punchline is that the Nidoran is actually the Nidoking's father.
• Demon King GF: Zenith, the Half-Human Hybrid daughter of the Hero and the Demon King, towers over her parents by the time she's eleven years old. Her father's head barely comes above her waist.
• Faux Pas: Stu and Edie's eldest, Fluffy, is almost twice as large as either of his parents and all of the other rabbits in the comic. Some of the local wild rabbits assume he's a demon due to his size.
• Housepets! features the immortal gods Pete and Spirit Dragon, who spend most of their life towering over every character until being sentenced to a mortal life as the kits of a fox. When they eventually regain their true forms, Pete becomes this to his mortal mother, who's barely as tall as his beak.
• Kevin & Kell: As an adult, Kevin Dewclaw (formerly Kindle) is an oversized rabbit who's more than twice the height of either of his parents Bentley and Dorothy Kindle, who are both Miniature Senior Citizens. His siblings aren't as big compared to him, but his sisters Danielle and Prudence (the rarely-seen mother of Wendell Luckyfoot) are still far taller than their parents.

Web Original

• Looming Gaia: One of Sovereign's children was born with extreme gigantism due to his mother sabotaging her egg cycle in protest of being kidnapped and forced to bear Sovereign's offspring. The child grew larger than both his parents when he was still a small child, and Sovereign banished him when he couldn't fit in the nursery. He is now known as Mr. Kraken due to being often mistaken for one due to his massive size, and protects a deepwater tribe from a real kraken that's been prophesied to attack them one day.
• In Countrydogs, countries are represented as anthropomorphic dogs. As for example, the personifications of the USA (a mutt between Labrador, Pitbull and Golden Retriever), Canada (Canadian Eskimo Dog), Australia (Australian Blue Heeler) and New Zealand (New Zealand Heading Dog) are taller than their Corgi father, England. Similarly, Brazil (Brazilian Terrier) is taller than her father, Portugal (Portuguese Water Dog).

Web Videos

• Acquisitions Incorporated: The "C" Team: Rosie Beestinger, an elderly halfling lady, is diminutive even by her species' standards. She had also enjoyed a very promiscuous lifestyle for most of her long life, so one of her many, many children is a giant half-orc(-half-halfling) named Driebus.
• Pop Cross Studios: In Famously Cute Characters As Beasts, part of Christian's Tayrun the Beast Chronicler series, Nemo, traditionally depicted as a small, cute clownfish, is painted as the Nemoan Razermaw, a creepy but benevolent monster clownfish who successfully defended its father from the barracuda that killed its siblings. From then on, the Razermaw's father raised and protected it, despite the fact that it could clearly defend itself, until the Razermaw reached adulthood, and then took over as his protector. Tayrun the narrator notes that the Razermaw and all its siblings were unusually large for their age.
• SuperMarioLogan: Before the cease-and-desist letter from Nintendo, Mario was portrayed with a Mario plush and Jeffy was portrayed with a puppet, which naturally made Jeffy towering over his own dad. Even after Mario was turned into a puppet, the Marvin puppet is 5'1 and Jeffy is 22 inches tall, so Jeffy is still larger than his dad.

Western Animation

• Adventure Time: Sweet P is a large baby that towers over the other characters. He is the adoptive son of Mr. Pig and Tree Trunks, who are even shorter than main character Finn the Human.
• Alfred J. Kwak: The titular duck grows up a lot bigger than his adoptive father Henk, who is a mole.
• The Amazing World of Gumball:
  • Richard is huger and heftier than his mother Jojo, who is a very short old rabbit.
  • It's revealed in "The Colossus" that Hector the giant's mother is a witch who is even shorter than Gumball, and a Yubaba Expy to boot.
• American Dragon: Jake Long: Jake's grandpa is very short (unless he's in his dragon form), and flashbacks show that he was also pretty small in his younger days. His daughter Susan is much taller than him, as such.
• The titular Cuckoo in the Animaland short "The Cuckoo" is enormous compared to his non-biological sparrow parents. Justified in that real cuckoos work similarly.
• Famous Studios's Baby Huey shorts star a gigantic duckling that often causes trouble to the other normal-sized ducks with his clumsiness. In his debut short, it's shown that his massive size is the result of his mother overdosing on vitamin pills.
• Ben 10: Omniverse: Azmuth (a member of the Galvan species, who are small enough to stand atop a human's palm) is revealed to be the creator of the entire Galvanic Mechamorph race who are at least the size of humans, with the malevolent Mechamorph Malware who has a history with Azmuth outright referring to him as father at one point.
• Dad from The Brak Show is hilariously tinier than Mom or Brak, or even other human beings in general, being a proportionately-sized stock "dad" character from the '50s who's probably, at best, 3 feet tall. According to Word of God this was a caused by a scaling mistake while animating the first episode... and they thought it was hilarious enough to keep.
• Jun's mother May from Dragons: The Nine Realms by all appearances has dwarfism. Doesn't stop her from being quite the stern boss to the I.C.A.R.I.S. Facility.
• The Fairly OddParents!: Denzel Crocker is tall and lanky, and yet his doting mother is diminutive.
• Family Guy: Downplayed. Thelma is only a little shorter than her son Peter, though he's definitely heftier than her. Thelma's husband Francis was also shorter and skinnier than Peter, but it was eventually revealed that he wasn't Peter's biological father and his real dad turns out to share his build.
• Final Space: Both of Clarence's adopted children, Ash and Fox, are larger than him due to his diminutive size. Fox in particular is built like a WWE wrestler.
• Godzilla: The Series: Exaggerated. Nick Tatopoulos serves as the surrogate father of Godzilla Jr., and he is the size of a normal human while his "son" is as big as a building.
• Hey Arnold!: Huge Schoolgirl Patty is much bigger than her parents, who both have dwarfism.
• Infinity Train: Exaggerated in Book 4's "The Pig Baby Car". Cow Creamer is as tiny as an actual ceramic cow, and her son Pig Baby is a giant who dwarfs even the main human characters.
• Jackie Chan Adventures: Tohru is a giant and has the build of a sumo wrestler. His mother is smaller than Jade.
• Kid Cosmic: Fantos is a huge purple alien that towers over the entire cast of heroes. His mom on the other hand doesn't even reach up to his knees.
• King of the Hill: Hank Hill is about a head taller than his father Cotton in the present day, but the reason Cotton is shorter is that his legs below his shins were surgically removed due to a war injury.
• Legends of Chima: In the Mammoth Tribe, Maula and her son Mottrot are the same size as most of the other inhabitants of Chima while Maula's other son and Mottrot's brother, Mungus, is bigger than both of them.
• Lloyd in Space: Kurt's parents are both smaller than he is, since Blobullons shrink as they age.
• Looney Tunes:
  • A series of shorts directed by Chuck Jones featured a dysfunctional version of The Three Bears, which inverts the trend of its source material by having Papa being the smallest and Baby Bear being the largest.
  • The 1954 short "Goo Goo Goliath" has the drunk Delivery Stork accidentally delivering a baby giant to a pair of normal-sized human parents.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • In addition to being taller than his older sister Fluttershy, Zephyr Breeze towers right over both his parents.
  • As shown in "The Perfect Pear", Granny Smith's son Bright Mac was around the same size as his son Big Macintosh would be as an adult. As a result, he dwarfed Granny, just like Big Mac.
  • In the Series Finale, now that Twilight Sparkle has Princess Celestia proportions, she is utterly gigantic compared to her parents, or really any pony other than the immense Clydesdale Troubleshoes Clyde who appears to stand eye-to-eye with her.
• Pound Puppies (2010): Leonard McLeish is an average-sized adult man, and he dwarfs his elderly mother Agatha.
• The Raccoons:
  • Lisa is the tallest of the main raccoon characters and as a result, she towers over her parents.
  • From the series finale, "Go for Gold!", Rod Steel is taller and more muscular than his father Robin.
• Recess: Gentle Giant Mikey Blumberg, who towers over every other kid on the playground (he seems to be roughly six feet tall — and he's in fourth grade) is much taller than his extremely short father. Mrs. Blumberg, in contrast, is slightly taller than Mikey, making the Blumbergs a Tiny Guy, Huge Girl pairing; Mikey apparently inherited her height.
• Regular Show: In the Distant Finale, the very short Rigby and Eileen have two very tall daughters. They may take after their very tall uncle Don, however.
• Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: A much more exaggerated example in this incarnation as the Splinter here is much shorter and chubbier than most of the others while his sons are still very tall and large (especially Raphael).
• Rocky and Bullwinkle: In a "Fractured Fairy Tales" rendition of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," Papa Bear and Mama Bear are normal-sized bears, while Baby Bear is as big as a tree.
• The Secret Saturdays: Fiskerton, a Lemurian, completely towers over the rest of the family, including both his human adoptive parents Doc and Drew (whom are no slouches in the height department).
• The Simpsons: "Simpson's Tall Tales" has the (inconsistent but at least 10 feet tall) Paul Bunyan (played by Homer) be born to normal-sized parents in the "Paul Bunyan" segment. The audience does get to see the aftermath of his birth, which was apparently so traumatising to his mother that she needs some whiskey afterwards.
• Discussed in an episode of South Park. Dick Slapperman's mother was a dwarf and his father was a giant. She thought marrying a giant would produce a normal-sized child, but he still ended up a dwarf.
• SpongeBob SquarePants: Mr. Krabs has a massive teenage whale daughter named Pearl. It is unknown whether she is adopted or if she is the result of Krabs having an Interspecies Romance with a whale.
• Steven Universe: Teenager Sour Cream towers over his stout stepfather Yellowtail.
• Total Drama: Gentle Giant DJ is nearly twice as tall as his stout mother, making it more amusing how much power she has over him.
• Huckleberry Knucklehead in the Wander over Yonder episode "The Toddler" is a huge baby that dwarfs both Wander and Sylvia, while his parents are a pair of tiny bug-like aliens no bigger than Huck's fingers.

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