Tall Woman and Short Boy Treats Boy Like a Baby

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Men are usually bigger/taller than women, right? Well, almost of the fourth dimension, simply there are cases in which a woman will be taller than her dear involvement, either because she'due south unusually tall or because he'southward unusually short. Sometimes it'due south both; sometimes the girl is a good deal wider than the guy as well. More often than not the showtime instance goes under Hot Amazon or a Statuesque Stunner, while the 2nd goes in Big Beautiful Woman, Amazonian Dazzler, or Abhorrent Admirer.

When this trope happens, the guy might feel self-conscious nearly dating a woman larger than him, or the girl might feel similarly insecure most dating a homo much shorter/smaller than her (and let's not talk most if she wears heels...). Merely in other cases, the guy will find a woman attractive not "despite" how tall she is, but partly considering of information technology.

Naturally, the Counter Trope of Huge Guy, Tiny Daughter and 1 Head Taller. It may overlap with Hot Amazon, Statuesque Stunner, Amazonian Dazzler, or Large Beautiful Woman. Masculine Daughter, Feminine Boy is a Sis Trope, and the two are often constitute together.

Examples of Tiny Guy, Huge Girl include:

Anime and Manga

• Pictured above: Natsumi "L/Eru" Asaoka and Shunsuke Aoba from the classic manga The Kabocha Wine.
• In Mobile Adjust Gundam 0083: Stardust Retention, the Amazonian Beauty Nighttime-Skinned Redhead Wrench Wench Moira Bascht and the Butt Monkey pilot Chuck Keith end up becoming the Beta Couple (or at to the lowest degree are unsaid to exercise then). Moira stands head and shoulders over Keith, and is apparently more muscular then he is.
• Krillin is noticeably shorter than his married woman C-xviii (who's the tallest female grapheme in the show) and practically every other character of the series (Gohan was the same peak as him when he was five years quondam).
  • Krillin's pinnacle actually changes constantly, sometimes he'south as big as 5 twelvemonth old Gohan, sometimes he'south equally big equally xi year old Gohan...
• Cibo and Killy of the manga serial Blame, with Cibo being a skilful bargain taller than Killy. At least, at showtime.
• Lampshaded in Library State of war, in which Kasahara is noticeably taller than her love involvement and superior Dojo, to his annoyance.
• The parrot in Time Bokan has a big domineering married woman.
• In Super Dreadnought Girl 4946, brusk guy Makoto Tokida ends up befriending and forming a relationship with the virtually fifty-meter tall Mana Eimiya. She insists her tiptop is 49 metres 46 centimetres; it's of import to her because shorter girls are cuter, right? There's also Kotou Akemi and Isaac Montana, who both tried to win him over Mana.
• In Shaman Male monarch, Oyamada Manta's begetter is virtually his tiptop (in the neighborhood of fourscore centimeters tall); his mother, on the other hand, is of normal peak (and noticeably ameliorate-looking)
• Gun 10 Sword: A mild antagonist version; Fasalina is clearly a head and few inches taller than Michael.
• Bleach: Segmentation 10'southward Vice Captain Rangiku Matsumoto (172 cm, or 5'vii 3/four") and Helm Toushirou Hitsugaya (133 cm, or four'4"), the woman being massive in at least one area... More similar ii areas, though. Additionally, Hitsugaya with the otherwise normally-sized Momo Hinamori of Division 5 (151 cm, 4'11").
• Claymore: Riful and Dauf (Awakened form), and Clare and Raki (pre-timeskip).
• The whole premise of Lovely Complex - namely, protagonists Koizumi (171 cm alpine: Huge Schoolgirl) and Otani (158 cm tall: The Napoleon). The fact this is so annoys them to no end, as they plant at the beginning that no one takes them seriously in terms of romance considering of this. And for better or worse, they kickoff falling for each other...
  • Information technology's also hinted that this is a case of Generation Xerox, as Koizumi's grandparents were also like this... and they faced LOTS of hardships. This may explain why Koizumi'south now widowed grandfather hates Otani so much - he fears that he won't be able to make Koizumi happy if they stay together.)
• Zone of the Enders: Dolores, i, in a non-romantic (sorta), platonic manner: The onetime veteran pilot stuck together with a sentient mecha with a piddling daughter's personality.
• One Piece: Monkey D. Luffy clocks in at only over v-foot-seven. His enthusiastic admirer, the pirate empress Boa Hancock, towers over him at a statuesque six-foot-three. (For bonus amusement, she's as well 12 years his senior, making them if not a May–December Romance than at least a May August...Whatever The Heck Is Going On There.)
  • He'due south now befriended Shirahoshi, the biggest mermaid alive, whose size is comparable to their send. She doesn't really seem to develop romantic feelings for him, though.
  • Miss Monday and Mr ix became an Official Couple version of this trope during the time skip; they fifty-fifty have a baby to seal the deal.
  • Later, the already massive Aladine from the Dominicus Pirates marries a beautiful and much younger lady who's even bigger than him: Charlotte Praliné, a half shark mermaid and i of the daughters of Charlotte Linlin aka "Big Mom". Save for Praliné's clinginess, they do pretty well in their married life.
• Trigun:
  • Millie and either Vash or Meryl is a platonic example.
    • Vash and Wolfwood are both rather boilerplate sized. Merely Wolfwood with Millie becomes this trope, while Vash becomes the Huge Guy with Meryl.
  • In the anime, the Nebraskas. Pa Nebraska is a tiny, ugly, ancient-looking man. His wife, Ma Nebraska, basically looks similar Gofsef (the giant deformed cyborg who is so huge that Pa rides around in his pocket) with breasts and hair. Except she may be even bigger than her giant son, at to the lowest degree a head taller.
• Macross Borderland: Michel Blanc and Kuran Kuran (often a total-sized Zentraedi). That is, if Kuran isn't Micloned. If she does, the trope is Huge Guy, Tiny Girl instead, as she looks much smaller and younger than her real age.
  • Arguably, Max and Myria Jenius from the offset series, although they only encountered each other in her original size once... that we know of.
• Inoue Kazurou's brusque story Aoi Destruction, where the titular graphic symbol is a 38 years old pint-sized Hot "Loli" Dad and his late wife was a overwhelmingly hulking pile of muscle.
• Ponyo's parents. Her mother, Granmammare, can agree her father Fujimoto in the palm of her hand, when she's at full size. He'south not peculiarly tiny, though—she's just really big.
  • Just to brand it clear, Granmammare is the Sea!! Fujimoto is, most likely, a regular man, or at to the lowest degree APPEARS to be homo. Thus, it's extremely understandable that she'd be bigger than him.
• Magic Knight Rayearth: Tiny Spirit Advisor Clef (who's Really Vii Hundred Years Old) and either Umi Ryuzaki or Presea (add Presea's Fill-in Twin Sierra, if you follow the anime), whether their angel for him are romantic or not (at least onesided from Presea and Sierra, Umi's case is a bit more debatable).
• Take On Me centers on Tomonori Tsuda (scrawny and well-nigh 5' 1" (156 cm)) and Oono Hikaru (just shy of half-dozen' (182 cm) and capable of walking off with Tsuda tucked nether her arm). Since it is that sort of Manga at that place are a few amusingly awkward scenes that cannot exist described hither.
• The primary couple of Huge Schoolgirl, Ayako, and Cute Shotaro Boy, Mamoru, in Mamoru-kun Ni Megami no Shukufuku Wo is this trope. He comes a bit short of her shoulders.
  • Oh, and speaking of Mamoru-kun ni Megami no Shukufuku wo, Kanokon goes nether the aforementioned vein.
• Kaoru of Nana to Kaoru is really brusque and skinny, while Nana is a statuesque brunette who's two/three inches taller. One chapter shows he has to stand on tiptoe to whisper into her ear.
• From Katanagatari we have Chouchou, who is roughly the size of a child and Oshidori, who is the tallest female character.
• In Soul Eater, Tsubaki is noticeably taller than her meister Black Star, and both Thompson sisters are taller than Death the Kid. The girls are also quite a bit older.
• In Yu-Gi-Oh, we have Tea, who is somewhat alpine, and Yugi, who is pretty much a midget. In the Pool Episode, Joey realizes how odd a ship of them would be.
  • In Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Napoleon (who is indeed The Napoleon) is divorced, and his ex-wife is seen only briefly in shadow during a flashback, but that lone shows she's much taller than he is.
• Pietro's parents in Popolocrois. Doubles as Interspecies Romance, since his Hot Mom is a dragon.
• Hiei from Yu Yu Hakusho is significantly smaller than his prospective Dear Interest Mukuro with whom the BST is very nowadays.
• Eyeshield 21: Sena'due south Not Dearest Involvement Mamori is 3 inches taller then him.
  • Sena considers Mamori equally an older sister, so it doesn't fit. Monta can be considered one, just information technology's one-sided.
• Makken and Leyte in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
• Mizuki and Akira from Ai Ore Love Me.
• Yui and Kei from Houou Gakuen Misoragumi.
• Koichi and Yukako from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
• More-or-less every straight Edward Elric pairing is this in Fullmetal Alchemist. For near of the manga he'south 4'11 - 5'ii, though he outgrows it.
• Luchino from Baccano! is a smallish teenage male child. Aging, on the other hand, stands well over two meters and is described every bit having a build similar Michelangelo's David, but with breasts and l% more musculus. Luchino barely reaches upwardly to her breast.
• Steel Angel Kurumi and the 12-twelvemonth old protagonist Nakahito.
• The protagonists of Houkago Play'due south offset volume.

Comic Books

• DC Comics:
  • Scott Gratuitous and Large Barda. Awww, and then cute.
  • Also with Scott Free'due south Manager Oberon and Burn.
  • Post-Zero Hour Legion of Super-Heroes had Monstress and Chemical element Lad, which might also count as Beast and Beauty except for the fact that Monstress doesn't accept a "Creature" personality.
  • Nightwing and Starfire of Titans fame. He'southward only short relative to other superheroes, but she is almost two meters tall. More, counting her hair.
    • They stay like this even in the blithe version, where she's somewhat shorter and has normal pilus.
  • Sizeshifters Giganta and The Atom (Ryan Choi) used to be an detail. Even with both at normal size, she has several inches on him.
  • Similarly, Andromeda and Brainiac 5 of Legion of Super-Heroes.
• Marvel Comics
  • From the Alpha Flight serial, the towering Diamond Lil and average-pinnacle Madison Jeffries.
  • Also from Alpha Flight, when Heather Hudson briefly dated Puck, a dwarf.
  • Technically, when Ant-Man shrinks downward to utilize his Power Perversion Potential.
  • She Hulk and Wyatt Wingfoot, when they were dating. Note that Wyatt Wingfoot is actually a pretty big fellow (he's taller than say, Reed Richards or Johnny Storm). Really, she has ended up being taller than every man she dated seriously.
  • Wolverine and almost any adult female he dates.
• Harvey Comics
  • Long-running grapheme Footling Lotta, a large Big Eater with near super strength, has Gerald, a stereotypical puny bookworm, for a guy pal.
• Avatar Comics
  • Christos Gage's Absolution has Alpha, a female Brick, well over six anxiety tall and happily married to a non-metahuman human of considerably more boilerplate proportions.

Fan Works

• A number of Bionicle fans were hoping that Kiina and Berix would become a couple. Jossed by Greg Farshtey, since they're from different species.

Film

• Roger and Jessica Rabbit. He doesn't attain her waist.
  • To be off-white though, her legs are pretty long
  • That, and Roger's a rabbit.
  • Also, Dolores and Eddie Valiant. Far from equally drastic then much less noticable, only still she has several inches on him.
• In Monsters vs. Aliens, Susan was 50 feet tall when she was engaged to her fiancé.
• Being the titular 50-human foot adult female, Nancy Archer towers over her husband, Harry.
• From Monsters, Inc., Mike Wazowski and his girfriend Celia Mae. She'due south roughly the meridian of a homo adult, whereas he's basically a basketball-sized eyeball on legs.
• Julie and Julia: Julia Kid (Meryl Streep) and her sister (Jane Lynch) are both virtually vi'2" (in The Fifties, where the average man ls around 5'8") and both autumn for guys who are a head shorter, despite Julia's try at setting her sister up with a guy who's taller ("What's he like?" "He's... alpine"). Based on Existent Life.
• Avatar. Its merely actually seen once merely Jake is considerably shorter than his 9 foot tall eventual spouse Neytiri, though in all just one scene, he interacts with her through his every bit alpine Avatar which he eventually permanently uploads into.
• Jason Melon and his squeeze Valerie from Back to School. She's about three inches taller than boilerplate and he's almost three inches shorter than average; he practically needed to stand on his toes to kiss her.
• Donkey and the Dragon from Shrek
• Lux and Nim in Dungeons and Dragons: Wrath of The Dragon God. They're not exactly an detail, per se, but they do get several instances of Ship Teasing.
• Ella Enchanted has Slannen the elf falling in love with Brumhilda the giant.
• Seymour and Audrey, from Little Shop of Horrors.
• Referenced in Ocean's Eleven, in which Saul objects to Tess existence Bridegroom'south girlfriend on the grounds that she's too tall for him. Presumably Saul finds this trope disagreeable.
• Long Duk Dong and Marlene in Sixteen Candles.
• Kurd and Big Girl in Take the Pb.
• Norbit
• Mr. and Mrs. Turnblad in Hairspray. Absolutely, the mother is played by a man in drag, merely it'southward played straight in both movies and the theatre adaptation.
• Oliver and Visitor has Tito the chihuahua and Georgette the poodle, though information technology's by and large an unrequited vanquish from Tito to Georgette until the cease. At which point Tito wants to get away from Georgette.
• Hyacinth Hippo and Ben Ali Gator on the "Dance of the Hours" segment of Fantasia.
• Ted and Audrey from The Lorax.
• The short gaunt Kyle and amazonian BBW Rhonda in Route Trip.
• In the opening sequence of The Triplets of Belleville, the audience consists entirely of tiny men and their enormous wives.
• Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood in Matilda.

Literature

• Hagrid'south parents are a normal-sized wizard and a giant adult female. How, you ask? A Magician Did It!
• Miles Vorkosigan and... okay, the only adult woman in his life that was not at least One Caput Taller than his own four-foot-ten-on-a-good-day (147 cm) height was more interested in his foster brother than him. The two most notable examples are his first trounce Elena Bothari (around v'10" (178 cm)) and the experimental Super Soldier he rescued and named Taura (around 8' (2.4m)). Speaking of Taura, in the short story Winterfair Gifts a fellow member of House Vorkosigan's personal guard (Armsman Roic, a rather tall and powerfully built boyfriend by ordinary standards) has an epiphany later on coming face to bustline with her and almost dislocating his arm helping with her luggage when she arrived to attend Miles' wedding ceremony.

This must be what it's like for M'lord... all the time.

• Discworld'southward rather skinny Vimes and his not quite obese just extremely well-built wife Lady Sybil.
  • Besides, in Thud!, pipsqueak Nobby Nobbs dates six-foot stripper Tawneee.
  • In the Discworld, we meet greengrocer Arthur Winkling and his wife, a human suffering from late-onset vampirism who is a Henpecked Husband to his domineering homo wife, who expressly forbids him from doing all that business with flighty young women in underwired nightdresses who are no better than they should exist. A subversion and a Shout-Out to Gomez and Morticia Addams.
• From Honor Harrington:
  • Accolade is 6'two" (188 cm) and Paul Tankersley was about 5'half dozen" (168 cm), but powerfully congenital. He spent a lot of time teasing her and giving her sexually laden grief about it earlier he had a span dropped on him. Subsequently she got a more than equal match, as Hamish Alexander is about the same height.
  • Anton Zilwicki and Cathy Montaigne only keeps the proportion. He is virtually 5'6" (168 cm) tall and merely as wide, she'south most 6' (183m) tall and extremely lanky.
• Holly Short and Artemis Fowl. He'southward a human child of simply below average height, she'southward a metre-tall elf, making her slightly shorter than him merely she's visibly muscular and he's a scrawny academic. And in the sixth volume she kisses him, and briefly considers condign involved with him, but ... it's complicated. Of grade, when (if?) he becomes an developed human being, he should become much taller than her.
• The Garrett, P.I. novels' Amazonian Winger and "the Remora", her shrimp of a young man/biographer.
• Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood of Matilda: Mr. Wormwood is illustrated equally very thin while Mrs. Wormwood is at least twice his size (but the same height).
• A Song of Water ice and Fire: Jaime's aunt Genna, who is huge in every way, and her husband Emmon Frey, a little wisp of a man.
  • Brienne is in love with Lord/Kind Renly, and is taller than about men (though equal in summit to Jaime, with whom she has plenty of Ship Teasing. She suffers a lot of No Guy Wants an Amazon within the books, though her chief problem with Renly was their Incompatible Orientation.
• The children's volume Tiny and Mister Bigman, Tiny is the definition of Hot Amazon, 6'5" strong every bit an ox Jamaican woman with a voice like a hurricane that unintentionally frightens all the men on the isle and Mister Bigman is a five'4" scrawny almost deaf white man on vacation from somewhere. They fall in beloved virtually the moment they run across.
• In John Crowley'southward Petty, Big, Smoky Barnable, height unspecified only described every bit short, marries Daily Alice Drinkwater (over 6 feet). Toward the end of the story, though, the size disparity becomes ... much larger.
• In Sewer Gas and Electric, Harry Gant'southward mother is a tall, croaking construction forewoman, while his father is a brusk, rather fragile history buff.
• Sera Vorder and Francis Love Skelbrooke from Goblin Moon and The Gnome's Engine. She's and so tall and sturdy that she'due south embarassed nearly it, he'southward petite due to faerie claret and (deceptively) delicate-looking.
• The Myth Adventures books imply that Aahz and Tananda had a fling in the by. Tananda is alpine enough to accept subjected Skeeve to Marshmallow Hell in the graphic novel of Another Fine Myth, and Aahz is shorter than Skeeve.
• In the Doctor Who Eighth Physician Adventures book Vanishing Point, Fitz'southward Girl of the Calendar week is at least 6'6" (and extremely Moe—she has an odd, asymmetrical face and desperately mismatched legs that give her a limp, and is extremely sheltered thanks to a benevolent variant of Madwoman in the Attic). It'south never quite clear how alpine he is, and he sometimes seems to feel he's egregiously tall, but in this book he'southward implied to exist shorter than the 5'8" Doc. They're both skinny, though.
• Physically, Henry and Eva Wilt besides fit the Tiny Guy, Huge Girl trope: in line with author Tom Sharpe's female leads, Eva is an Earth Mother, a very much larger-than-life woman who does everything to backlog, including maternity - she is mother to quad girls, too to Henry's discomfort. And they all take after Mum...
• Bearding Rex - Vincent, a velociraptor, is naturally much smaller than his friend and colleague, Glenda, a hadrosaur. At one point, Vincent steps onto Glenda's shoulders to achieve a high drainpipe, noting that he felt "like a young son sitting on his female parent's shoulders to watch a parade."

Live Activeness Goggle box

• Survivor: Gabon: Ken is the shortest, skinniest guy on the show, while his chief ally, Crystal, stands 6'3" (191 cm) tall.
• NCIS: When Abby dates a fellow scientist who is a little person. Abby being Abby, there's no indication she even notices his height until he dumps her for being too alpine (an unfortunate development due to the death of the actor).
• On The Addams Family, Morticia is style taller than Gomez.
• That '70s Show has two couples like this: Eric and Donna (who are besides a subversion: they're actually well-nigh the same height, only Donna is way stronger), then Fez and Big Rhonda.
  • In a What If episode, Eric'due south Guardian Affections(played by Wayne Knight) shows Eric what his future would be like if he had never dated Donna. In said future, he actually ends up marrying Large Rhonda whose gotten a lot bigger, more homely and quite abusive.
• Firefly: Through the utilize of photographic camera angles, Launder is portrayed as being a few inches shorter than his married woman Zoe. On the DVD commentaries people actually express surpirse at how this comes out, since in real life Alan Tudyk (Wash) is a few inches taller than Gina Torres (Zoe), and there was never anything blatant like standing on a box to change the height for the screen.
• C.J. Cregg (played by the ridiculously tall Allison Janney) and Danny Concannon (who's just about normal meridian) on The West Wing. Lampshaded with C.J. and her Temporary Dearest Interest Agent Simon Donovan (played by Mark Harmon) when C.J. remarks that she really likes how alpine Donovan is considering "it makes [her] feel more feminine."
• Invoked on Whose Line Is Information technology Anyhow?, with Wayne Brady, shortest of the players merely highly active, singing to... a female bodybuilder. They're actually about the same tiptop, and she IS wearing heels merely... she's a BODYBUILDER.
  • In another episode, during a playing of Greatest Hits almost Xena: Warrior Princess, Wayne and Chip Esten have to sing a vocal called "Huge Women, Puny Men."
• Played straight on Hannah Montana, when Miley ends up on a date with Oliver'south friend Connor, who is noticeably shorter.
• For a short fourth dimension there on The Wonder Years, thanks to the vagaries of puberty, Winnie was significantly taller than Kevin.
• Charlie and Amita in Numb3rs.
• In L.A. Police force Stuart Markowitz and Ann Kelsey became a couple and eventually got married. Stuart was short and stubby, while she was much taller. This could too be added to real life examples since the actors were married in real life.
• Go Smart tried to avoid this: In close-up shots, Barbara Feldon always had to scrunch down to avert towering over Don Adams. It couldn't exist avoided in broad shots.
• Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy exaggerate the trope past playing on her temper (made scarier by her size) and his meekness (made funnier by his size).
• Davy and the beautiful, alpine laundromat owner in The Monkees episode "Monkees Get out More Dirt".
• In Working Class, Carli (played by Melissa Peterman, v'x") gets an internet appointment (played by David Faustino, 5'3") to go to her dominate's housewarming political party with her. Numerous height jokes ensue.
• Gaius Baltar and Half-dozen in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica Reimagined - Tricia Helfer is several inches taller than James Callis, and it doesn't hurt that she oftentimes wears heels.

Music

• Ragtime-era songs like "Can You lot Tame Wild Wimmen" (Sterling/Von Tilzer, 1918) tend to characteristic niggling guys terrified of their huge girlfriends/wives — who, in classic slapstick tradition, usually use rolling pins as weapons.
• The 1930s song "Anybody Has Sex Appeal for Someone" past Ronald Frankau contains the lines: "In that location'south the little chap who married someone statuesque and thou / He'south worn himself to ribbons, at least I understand / Through climbing upwards to buss her and sliding back to state / so she must have had some sex entreatment for him."
• In the animation in the video for "Fritz, Fritz, Honey My Tits"

Mythology

• An American Indian (possibly Navajo) legend features a giant who meets a human man and wants to attempt wife-swapping. The human adult female is killed while the homo homo is dissolved.

Pro Wrestling

• Somewhat with erstwhile Intergendered Tagteam/Ability Couple Glamarella. Although non taller, Beth Phoenix is clearly more than muscular (and more unsafe) than her partner/boyfriend Santino Marella. The irony goes on as Beth's real alive hubby All Knighters' Joey Knight is ALSO less muscular than she is.
  • Really Beth denied ever existence married despite the speculation. There hasn't been much word from Joey Knight, and so...
    • She is curently divorced from Joey Knight, and is dating CM Punk. Who, even though is very fit, Besides doesnt take biceps as large as hers...

Theater

• The all-male person comedy ballet troupe Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo makes a indicate of casting a huge guy in the atomic number 82 female person role and a tiny guy in the lead male role in Swan Lake, but for the comic effect information technology gives to some of the traditional ballet moves.

Video Games

• Super Mario Bros.:
  • Peach is visibly (at least) a head taller than Mario, even with a Super Mushroom, mostly because Mario is shorter than average. Maybe ane of the most famous examples in all media bated from Boris and Natasha. But this is somewhat a played with trope in this case since in overall size, Mario is much bigger due to his stocky build and strong enough to throw heavy objects and enemies with ease, while Peach is slim, overnice, and feminine. Even so, information technology's still this trope at the cadre since someday they're together, she puts her arm around him and when they osculation, she bends down to kiss her heroic plumber.
  • Sometimes with his brother Luigi, he alternates betwixt beingness her size or shorter.
  • Oh, and the folio picture is of Mario kissing Peach. Imagine where Mario's face would be if he had not been standing on those books.
  • Sometimes they similar to exaggerate their size difference.
  • Princess Daisy is more or less the aforementioned height equally Peach. Rosalina on the other manus, is much taller (she is approximately the same height as Waluigi). Even more and so with Rosalina, who was seen as a giant at the finish of both Galaxy games, and the Mario Kart serial games classes her as a heavyweight despite her slender Princess Archetype blazon delicate build.
• In Metal Gainsay (the sequel to Battle Clash), the alien Zephyr has a huge and hideous wife named Pamela who is a good deal taller and wider then him. Even her mech is huge!
• Shoma and Natsu from Rival Schools, though both have trouble expressing those feelings and spend their time arguing with each other instead.
• Sonic the Hedgehog and Princess Elise from |Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), though whatever semblance of a romantic relationship is primarily one-sided on Elise's part.
• Fire Keepsake:
  • Blazing Bract: Ninian and either Hawkeye (platonic) or Eliwood (romantic), as she's a literal dragon (okay, half-dragon). It only happens once, even so, and involuntarily at that.
    • Also, Ninian (and Nils)'s parents. The mom was Aenir, a dragon woman; the dad was... Nergal, so a normal shuman shaman, and later on the Archnemesis Dad.
  • Binding Blade: Fae and nearly any male person, but specially Elffin and Roy. Again, when she'due south in Dragon grade.
  • The Sacred Stones: Myrrh and either Saleh or Ephraim when she'southward in her real Dragon form. If she's not, she's the Token Mini-Moe instead.
  • Burn down Emblem Enkindling: Ricken is the shortest of the whole cast, and so unless he'south paired with short girls (Nowi, Lissa, a young Female Avatar) he'll play this straight.
    • Amidst the younger boys, Male Morgan is the shortest. This will happens if he romances Kjelle, the tallest of the younger girls.
  • Fire Emblem Fates: Ricken's Expy Hayato is likewise among the shortest guys, and he can marry taller women like an older Female person Avatar.
• Warcraft:
  • Handsome stag/centaur Zaetar had relations with the iv armed, three faced, behemothic stoney Catholic Horror that is Princess Theradras. This also counts as an inversion of Ugly Guy, Hot Wife.
  • Alexstrasza and Korialstrasz/Krasus. Although they're pretty shut in height in humanoid grade (him being about a head taller), in dragon form she's at to the lowest degree twice his size.
  • The Wobblesprockets: Marvin, a gnome, and Tamara, a human.
• Taupy from Sands of Destruction is a midget bearfolk who looks similar an adorable pirate teddy bear. His wife Muffy besides looks like a teddy deport, but is nearly ii stories alpine and gets summoned to throw her husband at the enemy for his Limit Suspension.
• The entire Zuul species from Sword of the Stars. The elevation end of average pinnacle for male Zuul is 25 cm shorter than the bottom end of boilerplate height for female Zuul, and the difference in weight is even greater.
  • Likewise, the Morrigi, equally the males are minor eastern dragon creatures with psychic glamour and the ladies are huge western dragons with the ability to terrorize foes with their version of psychic powers.
• In Dragon Historic period, romancing Leliana or Morrigan with a dwarf. Though in the romance scenes, the dwarf is taller.
  • Dragons in this setting also follow this. Male person dragons are wingless and grow to be about the size of a big drafthorse. Females will somewhen become massive High Dragons.
  • A female person PC romancing Zevran besides accounts, seeing as elves are shorter than humans. Fifty-fifty in the sequel, where elves are generally taller, Fenris seems smaller than a female person Hawke (and Isabela, his potential sex-buddy), perchance because he's both skinny and slouches a lot.
• An odd instance between Daxter and Tess, considering that Daxter'due south not man. Although he used to be. Artistic wish-granting on behalf of some Sufficiently Avant-garde Precursors evened things out, though.
• Torahime and Kisuke from Muramasa, though this might just be because of the art style, since human enemies can be absolutely enormous for no reason. Kisuke is tiny no matter what, though. Raijin and Fujin even moreso.
• The Beloved Interest of Alundra ii, Princess Alexei is 2 times the height of the master graphic symbol, Flint. She's standing on a lower elevation in the buss scene at the game's cease.
• Nehema and Zee Tee in the good ending of Eversion
• Ratchet is shorter than each of his Girls of the Calendar week (past variable amounts: peradventure an inch or 2 shorter than Sasha, 1 Head Shorter than Talwyn, and at to the lowest degree a foot shorter than Angela) — This has less to practise with Interspecies Romance than it does with Ratchet beingness merely plain short. Additionally Dr. Nefarious gets into a fling with the utterly massive Cassiopeia.
• While well-nigh of the Princesses in Little King'due south Story are taller then Corobo, 2 take it to ridiculous extrtemes. The Busty Princess Ferne is as alpine as 4 Corobos. The obese Princess Spumoni is simply just far, far wider and taller then the poor little King.
• The protagonist of Menace Beach and his girlfriend.
• Ayla and Kino in Chrono Trigger. Ayla is over six anxiety alpine, ridiculously stiff to the point of outperforming fifty-fifty advanced robots, and towers over basically everybody except Robo (who is a lot taller and larger than he looks in-game in official art). Kino is most the aforementioned top every bit Marle (second shortest character after Frog), not to mention a consummate wimp.
• The wood elves in The Elder Scrolls.
  • Seeing equally Skyrim introduced romance options, you tin at present accept this, mostly if you player as a taller race (especially a female High Elf) and marry someone from a smaller race (such as a Breton).
• The Harvest Goddess in Harvest Moon beast parade towers over the protagonist. In Harvest Moon Isle of Happiness, the extremly brusk chef Pierre is able to be married by female players.
• From Ar Tonelico 3: Knell of Ar Ciel, there'due south the diminutive scientist Katene and Mute, who towers over him in terms of both height and muscularity... well, near of the fourth dimension, anyway. They're embarassingly and hillariously lovey-dovey together.
• Nythera'southward parents in Dragon Legend. Her father is a human wizard and her female parent is a dragon.
• Flonne at five'ii" from the Disgaea series towers above the 4'3" Laharl, according to the supplementary artbook; Etna is also about five inches taller than him. This doesn't really come across in the game proper very well, because near all the cutscene portraits and character sprites are the aforementioned size. Some official art does bear witness this though.
• Fable. In the second game investing in Strength will give you lot muscles, while investing in Skill gives y'all superlative, pregnant than a female character can potentially finish up much taller and more burly than a married man. There is also a far fleck of fan art with Hammer and Garth that strongly features this trope. In the third game, the Princess is taller than well-nigh anybody else from the first, perchance because of her Heroic bloodlines).
• Dragon'southward Dogma. Due to the the game'due south chief feature of Pawns (you create a main Pawn to be your abiding battle partner/follower) you can create a tall/muscular/plump woman as your main grapheme, so make a short/skinny man every bit your primary Pawn (or vice versa).

Webcomics

• In DMFA - Jyrras' parents: His father (a kangaroo rat) is about a third the size of his mother (a kangaroo). They met after the agency they had placed personals with got the species mixed up.
• Crimeny and Fuschia in Sinfest. He'southward barely upward to her waist.
  • Slick and 'Nique, also. Actually, about of the male characters would finish up fitting this trope if they had dearest interests...
• Haru-Sari June is quite tall, while Chi-Min is brusk due to being an elf, which means he is permanently stuck in a prepubescent body.
• Chris Morrison'southward Polymer City Chronicles. Dr. Otto Bonn, PhD is a scrawny human being at 5 feet, 8 inches and 135 lbs. His Blue Skinned Space Baby of a married woman Andrah, on the other hand, is a towering seven'1" (vii'8" with her mohawk). She's not but taller than him either; she's 387 lbs. of pure musculus with forcefulness 25 times that of an average human male person; so again, virtually every female in his comic is large-breasted and/or muscular ^[ane]) and high resistance to injury. According to Give-and-take of God, Andrah also happens to be Otto's intellectual equal (as an esteemed mechanic with the ability to translate any written or spoken linguistic communication), and is the 26-yr-erstwhile'south senior past a margin of 217 years. They are such a Belligerent Moe Couplet, information technology's sweet.
• Gunnerkrigg Court has Parley and Smitty. Accept a look at the last panel of this strip. It's even lampshaded in The Bluster.

He meliorate start conveying a footstool around.

• • Besides, nosotros have Lindsey and Bud.
• Wapsi Foursquare has Owen and Lakshmi.
• The eponymous Hot Amazon Of The Challenges of Zona makes her reasonably normal-sized boyfriend Mentl expect like a freaky little midget by comparing.
• Ruddy's World has Jiro ( 6'2" ) and Ruby ( 9'1" ).
• In Order of the Stick, iii'2" halfling Belkar has sex with normal-sized human Jenny, and neither seems at all bothered by the size difference.
• The hyenas in Digger are all like this; hyena females are bigger and more than aggressive than the males, like their Real Life counterparts. Most noticeable during Ed'due south backstory.
• In Police force of Purple you have Memphis, who is a notably short human being human being, paired up with Sabre, the much taller than him Caligulan elf chick.
• Jeff Nobelium and his wife. Word of God is that Mrs. Nobelium is about iii Terbiums...and Terbium himself is worth around two or 3 Jeffs.
• Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff: The cute wonan whom they both once dated at Subway is double their height and doesn't even completely fit into the panel size (intentionally of course).
• In webcomic The Meek, Luca is a Napoleon with Stout Strength, while his married woman Phe is fairly tall woman. Guessing from the art, his forehead is about level with her nose.

Western Animation

• Whenever Brian from Family Guy dates a woman, wait this trope to happens. Justified due to Brian existence a dog.
• Aang is shorter than Katara. However, Katara is 2 years older than he is (kinda sorta), and by the end of the series they're about the same height.
• In Darkwing Duck, the primary character is significantly shorter than his girlfriend Morgana Macawber.
• On The Fairly Oddparents, Trixie is the tallest of the kids, invoking this trope with Timmy or whoever else yous want to ship her with.
• Betty and Barney Rubble
• Futurama features the short, dumpy Hermes Conrad, and his statuesque, nearly-Amazonian wife LaBarbara.
• Ane DCAU episode featured Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor, and another had the previously mentioned Scott Free and Large Barda.
• Jackie Chan Adventures has one episode where Jade becomes really big and information technology is Tohru who looks small to her.
• ReBoot: Princess Bula and Specky, just the dissimilarity is jarring: he's as tall as her leg!
• Danny Phantom: Skulker and Ember as Ember is really the huge one; Skulker's real form is a tiny dark-green ghost, but he uses a Monster Conform, thus they appear to exist Huge Guy, Tiny Daughter.
• Beast Machines in the case of Obsidian and Strika, and also Rattrap and Botanica.
• Animaniacs:
  • We occasionally see Dr. Scratchansniff with his girlfriend, who is much taller and at least iii times his weight.
  • For a more extreme example, there's Pinky and Pharfignewton - he's a mouse, she's a equus caballus.
• Sierra from Total Drama World Tour is the tallest female person contestant and has a Fan Girl vanquish on Cody, the shortest male contestant.
  • Also LeShawna, one of the heaviest female person contestants, and Harold, the thinnest male contestant. He's taller, but the contrast between Big Cute Woman and Noodle Person is notwithstanding striking.
• Rocky and Bullwinkle: Boris and Natasha. One of the most famous examples in all media along with Mario and Princess Peach.
• The Scotsman and his wife from Samurai Jack. It's non that the Scotsman is tiny - in fact he's big, ugly, and stiff - it's just that his wife is bigger, uglier, and far stronger!
• Tutenstein: Tut himself and Cleo Carter. Like Aang and Katara, it's because Cleo is 2 years older (once again, kinda sorta), not to mention Tut is a shriveled mummy.
• The Disney's Alice in Wonderland has the Male monarch and Queen of Hearts. The Queen of Hearts is a huge, overbearing figure. The King of Hearts is miniscule in comparing. Information technology is lampshaded in the introductions:

White Rabbit: Her purple highness, he... her grace, her excellency, her majestic majesty, the Queen of Hearts! Crowd: (wild thanks) The King: (clears his throat expectantly) White Rabbit: And the King. Random vocalisation: Hooray!

• Riff Raff and his girlfriend Cleo from Heathcliff and The Catillac Cats.
• Lucius Heinous VII and Jez from Jimmy Two-Shoes.
• In The Angry Beavers, the twist of episode 12 is that the legendary giant river fish, Old Gramps, turns out be a shrivelled old fish who is maybe half the size of the beavers. The legends are really due to his wife, Old Grams, who is large enough to consume the beavers' dam whole.
• In Toy Story Buzz is noticeably shorter so Jessie. It helps that they're both toys from dissimilar times and companies.
• Kids Next Door, with Numbuh three/Kuki Sanban and Numbuh 4/Wally Beatles, while Kuki is actually the youngest Operative in Sector Five, Wally is the shortest, being around a head shorter than Kuki.
• Ernie Potts, the atomic demolitions man from Hey Arnold!, gets involved with his crush - a alpine, total-figured (a.k.a. "Large and Lovely") model named Lola.
  • Harold is about half the height of his possible girlfriend "Big" Patty.
  • Ane episode has a paper fortunteller predict that Sheena and Eugene will go married one mean solar day. Note the height departure. He wouldn't even reach her shoulder if his head wasn't so weirdly shaped!
• American Dragon: Jake Long: Jake and Rose.
• Mr. and Mrs. Brinks from Angela Anaconda
• Almost of Rocko's Love Interests and dates from Rocko's Modern Life, with the exception of Claudette (also a wallaby). In fact, the most we always see of Rocko'due south primary crush Melba is her legs.
• Eek! The True cat: Eek and Annabelle fit this trope to a tee. She's an obese pinkish southern belle of a cat who's as tall as a human being (in fact, her owner is just heard once as The Vocalization welcoming her to her new home when she's allow out of her cat carrier). In fact, a running gag is others telling him that his girlfriend is fat, but he doesn't see it; to him, she's a beautiful goddess.
• In the Harley Quinn cartoon, Dr. Psycho - a Depraved Dwarf - seems to accept a fetish of sorts involving women much larger than he is. He brainwashed Giganta into marrying him and even sired a son before the brainwashing wore off and she left him. (Toxicant Ivy asks him in one episode how it was even possible.) In a afterwards episode, Poison Ivy drinks some forumula that makes her grow to giant size, and Psycho apace starts gawking at her.
• In SpongeBob SquarePants episode "My Leg!" it is strongly hinted that one reason Fred keeps hurting his leg is because he'southward in love with a nurse at the infirmary, who turns out to be a huge, muscular woman about twice his size.

Real Life

• This is, as you lot might expect, Fetish Fuel for some people. This is not related to (simply still tin cantankerous over with) giantism related fetishes. Even if the girl's not bigger, many of these guys like it when a girl can kicking their butts.
  • In that location'due south likewise an interesting variation. Some men and women like to take ONLY the tiptop and things related to height (such as who puts their arm around who) defy stereotypes and gender roles while preserving traditional dimorphism aspects otherwise, such as a vi'0" 260 lb strongman and martial arts type guy with a half-dozen'three" 160 lb woman. It'due south well-nigh similar a Double Subversion in a way.
• Sophie Dahl and Jamie Cullum.
• Tom Cruise and either Nicole Kidman or Katie Holmes. Both are taller than he is. Of course, existence taller than Tom Cruise isn't exactly that impressive, but however.
  • Nicole appearing on Late Night With David Letterman correct after their divorce:

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• Quondam French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.
• Frequently happens in middle schools, because girls first puberty before on average, while almost boys haven't.
• Dennis Kucinich is only 5'7 (practically a midget for a pol), while his wife is 6'. She's also 31 years younger, for good measure.
  • In Europe apparently they don't intendance as much. Silvio Berlusconi (Prime number Minister of Italy), Nicholas Sarkozy (President of France), Dimitry Medelev (President of the Russia) and Vladimir Putin (Prime Minister of the Russian federation) are effectually 5'iv"/five'5". For Sarkozy his height is a Berserk Button.
• While the female anglerfish is the i that typifies the species in terms of size and advent, the male is a shrimp of a fish less than i-10th of her size that ends upwardly fusing with the female to get a mere sperm-producing appendage.
  • Truth in Television for virtually arthropods, reptiles, and birds. However, for mammals, it's reversed, and so we're a weird exception to the rule.
  • There are really two rules in functioning here. For most animals, where mating is a simple matter, females volition be larger because they have to put more free energy into maternal things. Eggs crave more energy to produce than sperm, demand more space to store, etc. If the creature takes care of immature, that is easier with a larger size, etc. Males simply have less need to be big. For animals where males compete over access to females (which includes most mammals), then males tend to be larger because it is the larger males that boss the matings, thus encouraging growth beyond what is strictly necessary for the survival of the species. There are a few weird exceptions out at that place, though. For instance, some males compete more through agility than strength, and may well become hyper-pocket-sized...
    • Despite having usual "harem" mating systems, female person rabbits and capybaras tend to be somewhat larger than the males.
    • Cuttlefish are apparently subject to both rules. Typically the menfolk volition compete with one another in feats of pure testosterone-fuelled manliness, only a smaller male volition frequently disguise himself as 1 of the ladies by tucking his tentacles and sneaking right by the larger, more aggressive manly men to mate with the female they were trying to impress. Apparently cuttlefish women like their men feminine, considering the cantankerous-dressing tactic is actually as successful equally posturing if non more and then.
• Tim Roth is definitely shorter than his married woman (he's 5'7)
• Martin Scorsese (five'3") and ex-wife Isabella Rossellini (5'8").
• Maggie Gyllenhaal (v'9") and her, uh, guy, Peter Sarsgaard (5'6").
• Harlan Ellison, a rather short man, was rumoured to "go around with gigantic showgirl types" earlier meeting and marrying his wife, who was closer to his height.
• Christine Fox, the existent-life model for Kelly MacGillis' character in TopGun. is over vi anxiety tall and is married to a much shorter human.
• There are many non-human examples, including most birds of prey and many snakes; a female python or viper is usually longer and heavier than a male of the same species.
• Sonny and Cher
• Limbless Nick Vujicic married her fiancé, Kanae Miyahara!
• Vittorio Emmanuele Iii of Italian republic (153 cms.) and his wife Elena of Montenegro (180 cms.)

1. ↑ Andrah, in fact, is based off an ex-girlfriend of Morrison'southward, an amateur female bodybuilder who was approximately six'two", 200lbs.

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