Basic Trope: The guy is noticeably taller than his female/feminine companion.
- Straight:
- Exaggerated:
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl.
- All the guys are taller than the girls.
- Bob is taller than everyone else.
- All Semes are taller than the Ukes.
- Downplayed:
- Bob is a couple inches taller than Alice.
- Bob is only a couple inches taller than Andy.
- Justified:
- In humans, males tend to be taller than females (though usually not so much).
- Bob does workout that helps his height.
- It's what she finds attractive.
- Inverted:
- Alice is taller than Bob.
- Andy, despite being the Uke, is taller than Bob.
- Gender-Inverted: Betty's head is above Alice's due to her height.
- Subverted:
- Bob looks to be taller than Alice when we get an above-torso shot of the two, but it turns out that Bob was standing on a cardboard box.
- Alice is shorter than Bob because there's an age gap.
- Double Subverted:
- But it turns out that Alice also was on a box, and Bob is still taller than her.
- In her adulthood, Alice is still much shorter than Bob.
- Alice and Bob are actually around the same height when standing straight, but in this scene Alice is kneeling or reclining at an angle towards Bob in a way that makes her look shorter than she is.
- Parodied: Regardless of age, race, and overall probability, every man is a lot taller than the women.
- Zig Zagged: Betty, the masculine girl, is one head taller than the feminine Andy.
- Averted:
- Height and sex are independent of each other.
- For the Boys Love variant, height and role in the relationship are independent of each other.
- Enforced:
- The writer of the show believes in rigid gender roles, so the male partners are always depicted as taller as a visual analogue to the author's belief that men are/should be the more dominant sex.
- Alternatively, the writer insists on carrying over said gender roles and stereotypes into homosexual relationships.
- The writer wants a visual cue that Bob is a protective boyfriend.
- Lampshaded: "How come all the guys I meet are bigger than their girlfriends?"
- Invoked: Bob attempts to somehow make himself taller in order to win over Alice.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied:
- Bob deliberately seeks out a girlfriend that doesn't care if he is shorter than her.
- Bob deliberately seeks out an Uke that doesn't care if he is shorter than him.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Andy has trouble finding a love interest because everyone he meets insists on this trope.
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