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* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': Marvin, according to Future-Ted, grew up to be bigger than his mother Lily.
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* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': Marvin, according to Future-Ted, grew up to be bigger than his mother Lily. Creator/AlysonHannigan is 5'4". Future-Ted noted Marvin grew up to be 6'7", even taller than his father Marshall, the "runt" of the Eriksen family at 6'4".
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* ''WestnerAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': Tohru is a giant and has the build of a sumo wrestler. His mother is smaller than Jade.
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* ''The Little Father'': Invoked and exaggerated. Mr. Master drinks Indian ink, which [[IncredibleShrinkingMan 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.
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* ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'': One strip features [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} 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 (pictured above) is that the Nidoran is actually the Nidoking's father.
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* ''Film/TheWolfMan1941'': Sir John Talbot, played by Creator/ClaudeRains, is about 5'7" and relatively slim while his son Larry is played by the 6'2" and burly Creator/LonChaneyJr.
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* Dad from ''WesternAnimation'' 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 WordOfGod this was a caused by a scaling mistake while animating the first episode... [[ThrowItIn and they thought it was hilarious enough to keep]].
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* Dad from ''WesternAnimation'' ''WesternAnimation/TheBrakShow'' is ''hilariously'' tinier than Mom OR ''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 WordOfGod this was a caused by a scaling mistake while animating the first episode... [[ThrowItIn and they thought it was hilarious enough to keep]].
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** In the SeriesFinale, now that Twilight Sparkle has Princess Celestia proportions, she is utterly ''gigantic'' compared to her parents, [[LargeAndInCharge or really any pony]] other than the immense Clydesdale Troubleshoes Clyde who appears to stand eye-to-eye with her.
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* Thorax from ''ComicStrip/NineChickweedLane'' 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.
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* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' episode "Height Unseen", in Season 4, features Dexter deciding to make everyone else shorter than him after an experiment with his height and him being the subject of bullying for being really small. In the end, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome the problems of him being huge]] are shown as a BrickJoke.
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This is a lot more common in real life than you'd expect -- so much so that [[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease 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 OneHeadTaller than her.
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* On ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'', Dorothy is at least a foot taller than her mother, Sophia. While this can be partly attributed to Sophia being a {{Miniature Senior Citizen|s}}, 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.
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** Richard is huger and heftier than his mother Jojo, who is a [[MiniatureSeniorCitizens very short old rabbit]]. However, this is averted in the case of his father Frankie, as they are both around the same size.
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* ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'': Before the cease-and-desist letter from Creator/{{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 Mario puppet is 5'1 and Jeffy is 22 inches tall, so Jeffy is still larger than his dad.
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* ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'': Before the cease-and-desist letter from Creator/{{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 Mario Marvin puppet is 5'1 and Jeffy is 22 inches tall, so Jeffy is still larger than his dad.
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* ''VideoGame/RiskOfRain2'' 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''.
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* ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'': Lurch is 6'9, but the episode "Mother Lurch Visits" reveals that his mother is very short.
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* ''Series/CheckItOutWithDrSteveBrule'': Steve Brule's mom Doris Pringle-Brule is positively tiny compared to her son. In the "Bagboy" special, Steve gets down on his knees to hug her, and he's ''still'' a bit taller.
* ''Series/{{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.)
* On ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'', Dorothy is at least a foot taller than her mother Sophia. While this can be partly attributed to Sophia being a {{Miniature Senior Citizen|s}}, 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 six 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.
* ''Series/{{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.)
* On ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'', Dorothy is at least a foot taller than her mother Sophia. While this can be partly attributed to Sophia being a {{Miniature Senior Citizen|s}}, 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 six 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.
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* ''Series/CheckItOutWithDrSteveBrule'': Steve Brule's mom mom, Doris Pringle-Brule Pringle-Brule, is positively tiny compared to her son.him. In the "Bagboy" special, Steve gets down on his knees to hug her, and he's ''still'' a bit taller.
* ''Series/{{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 is5'7 5′7″ and her father (whose actor is 3'6) 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.)
* On ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'', Dorothy is at least a foot taller than hermother mother, Sophia. While this can be partly attributed to Sophia being a {{Miniature Senior Citizen|s}}, 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 six 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.
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* ''Series/LittlePeopleBigWorld'': 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.
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* ''Series/LittlePeopleBigWorld'': The Roloff family features Lew and Matt (mom and dad) who are both 4'1. 4′1″. The couple has fraternal twins, Zach (4'4) (4′4″) and Jeremy (6'1), (6′1″), a daughter, Molly, (5'7), (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.
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* Dominik Mysterio, at 6 foot 1 and 200 lbs, is on the small side of average size for a pro wrestler. Nonetheless he towers over his 5 foot 6 father Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr.
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* ''Manga/{{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 GentleGiant and quite good with medicinal herbs, a fact that helps get them to warm up to him when the truth comes out.
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* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': 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.
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': 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.
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This is a lot more common in real life than you'd expect -- so common that [[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease 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 OneHeadTaller than her.
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** ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate'': Grace Harper, played by the [=5'8''=] Creator/MackenzieDavis, likewise towers over her adoptive mother [[spoiler:Dani Ramos]] in the past.
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* ''Film/StopOrMyMomWillShoot'': According to [=IMDb=], muscular Creator/SylvesterStallone, who plays the police sergeant main character, is 5'9½, fairly average height, yes. But, his overbearing mother is played by petite Creator/EstelleGetty who was a full 11 inches shorter than him at 4'10½.
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* ''Film/StopOrMyMomWillShoot'': According to [=IMDb=], muscular Creator/SylvesterStallone, who plays the police sergeant main character, Joe Bomowski, is 5'9½, fairly average height, yes. But, But his overbearing mother Tutti is played by petite Creator/EstelleGetty who was a full 11 inches shorter than him at 4'10½.
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* ''Film/{{Popeye}}'': Mrs. Oxheart is a seemingly frail, bent old lady. Her son Oxblood Oxheart is a MOUNTAIN of a man (and a MightyGlacier in the boxing ring). He's still an unabashed MommasBoy.
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* ''Film/{{Popeye}}'': Mrs. Oxheart is a seemingly frail, bent old lady. Her son Oxblood Oxheart is a MOUNTAIN ''mountain'' of a man (and a MightyGlacier in the boxing ring). He's still an unabashed MommasBoy.
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* ''Film/GrownUps'': 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.
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* On ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'', Dorothy is at least a foot taller than her mother Sophia. While this can be partly attributed to Sophia being a {{Miniature Senior Citizen|s}}, flashback episodes show that Dorothy has always been considerably taller than Sophia.
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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 MiniatureSeniorCitizens. If the character was ''born'' that large, then it can lead to FridgeHorror as to how the small biological mother birthed them out.
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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 MiniatureSeniorCitizens. If the character was ''born'' that large, then it can lead to FridgeHorror as to how the small biological mother birthed them out.
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** Edward Weevil is exactly 10 times the size of his mother, [[MiniatureSeniorCitizen Miss Buckin]], who is just over 2 feet tall. He's also about a foot taller than his alleged father Edward Newgate, better known as Whitebeard.
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** Edward Weevil is exactly 10 times the size of his mother, [[MiniatureSeniorCitizen Miss Buckin]], 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.
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* ''VideoGame/{{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.
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->''"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''', ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire''
A character is noticeably larger than one or more of their parents. Often PlayedForLaughs, but can sometimes be PlayedForDrama. 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 InterspeciesAdoption.
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 MiniatureSeniorCitizens. If the character was ''born'' that large, then it can lead to FridgeHorror as to how the small biological mother birthed them out.
Can overlap with TinyGuyHugeGirl for father-daughter pairings, and HugeGuyTinyGirl for mother-son pairings. See BigLittleBrother for a sibling variation. Contrast PintSizedKid, TeensAreShort, and GiganticAdultsTinyBabies.
This is a lot more common in real life than you'd expect -- so common that [[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease 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 OneHeadTaller than her.
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[[folder: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 [[HugeGuyTinyGirl towers over his wife]].
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* ''Anime/DeltoraQuest'': The EvilSorceress, 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.
* ''Manga/{{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 GentleGiant and quite good with medicinal herbs, a fact that helps get them to warm up to him when the truth comes out.
* ''Manga/MidoriDays'': One dojo owner looks like a junior-high girl, while his son is bigger than any other character in the series.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** 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, [[MiniatureSeniorCitizen Miss Buckin]], who is just over 2 feet tall. He's also about a foot taller than his alleged father Edward Newgate, better known as Whitebeard.
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* ''ComicBook/DungeonTwilight'': Marvin's son Baal is enormous, being at least twice as tall and wide as either of his parents.
* In ''ComicBook/TopTen'', Jeff Smax and his sister Rexa were raised by a dwarven couple, and thus are much taller than either of them.
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* ''ComicStrip/{{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.
* Thorax from ''ComicStrip/NineChickweedLane'' 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.
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* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': Vivienne Graham's elderly mother [[spoiler: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 TwoBeingsOneBody Titan.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}'': Justified; due to being an ''Iguanodon'', Aladar is enormous compared to his [[InterspeciesAdoption lemur adopted parents]] Plio and Yar.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'': Luisa, the musclebound GentleGiant with SuperStrength, towers over everyone else in the Madrigal family, and this includes her parents Julieta and Agustín.
* ''WesternAnimation/FireAndIce'': 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'': Kristoff was raised by trolls. Because he is a human, he is naturally taller than his adoptive mother, Bulda.
* ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeTheMeltdown'': A flashback reveals that Ellie was [[InterspeciesAdoption raised by possums]]. Naturally, being a mammoth, she is gargantuan compared to them, including the mother possum, even as a young calf.
* ''Anime/JackAndTheBeanstalk1974'': 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 ''WesternAnimation/Klaus2019'' 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 ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' series.
* ''WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman'': Downplayed; Sherman is Mr. Peabody's adopted human son who is only a little taller than him.
* ''WesternAnimation/SongOfTheSea'': The short elderly witch Macha has a mountain-sized giant son named Mac Lir.
* ''Anime/SpiritedAway'': Yubaba's son Boh is a massive baby twice the height of his mother. It's implied that he's actually an adult who resembles a baby due to his mother continuing to coddle him into adulthood.
* Cody's brother Glen Maverick in ''WesternAnimation/SurfsUp'' is larger than both Cody ''and'' their mother Edna.
* ''WesternAnimation/TarzanII'': Uto and Kago are huge gorillas who are huger and more muscular than their mother Gunda (who is also a gorilla).
* ''Anime/YouAreUmasou'': ''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.
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* ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'': [[Characters/MCUUltron 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 HulkingOut at least).
* Buddy in ''Film/{{Elf}}'' is a human raised by {{Christmas elves}}, and is gigantic compared to his adoptive father figure Papa Elf.
* ''Film/GrownUps'': 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.
* ''Film/HoneyIBlewUpTheKid'': Due to a mishap with a growth ray, Wayne Szalinski's toddler son is turned into a giant that towers over him.
* ''Film/{{Popeye}}'': Mrs. Oxheart is a seemingly frail, bent old lady. Her son Oxblood Oxheart is a MOUNTAIN of a man (and a MightyGlacier in the boxing ring). He's still an unabashed MommasBoy.
* ''Film/StopOrMyMomWillShoot'': According to [=IMDb=], muscular Creator/SylvesterStallone, who plays the police sergeant main character, is 5'9½, fairly average height, yes. But, his overbearing mother is played by petite Creator/EstelleGetty who was a full 11 inches shorter than him at 4'10½.
* ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'':
** ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'': John Connor, here played by the [=6'1''=] Creator/JasonClarke, naturally towers over his mother Sarah Connor (played by Creator/EmiliaClarke) whose head comes up to his chin. Although to be fair, InUniverse Sarah is barely out of her teens whereas her son is in his late 40s, due to TimeTravel.
** ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate'': Grace Harper, played by the [=5'8''=] Creator/MackenzieDavis, likewise towers over her adoptive mother [[spoiler:Dani Ramos]] in the past.
* ''Film/Thir13enGhosts'': The Great Child and the Dire Mother are the ghosts of a 3-foot-tall sideshow performer and her enormous adult son.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** Being a human raised by dwarfs, Carrot is much taller than both his parents and all the other dwarfs.
** Mrs. Atkinson in ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'' 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 ''Literature/ReaperMan'', 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.
* It is mentioned in ''Literature/HarrisonBergeron'' that the titular character is ''seven'' feet tall at 14, clearly much taller than both of his parents.
* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': 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 [[IncredibleShrinkingMan 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.
* ''Literature/MaryPoppins'' and the [[Film/MaryPoppins 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".
* ''Literature/TheSagaOfArrowOdd'': 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.
-->''"I'm at a loss for words," said Vignir.
-->"Why's that?" asked Odd.
-->"I can't believe such a puny-looking little wretch as you could be my father," said Vignir.''
* ''Literature/TheScholomance'': [[TheGhost Gwen Higgins]] is described as a 'petite, pink, English rose', where her daughter [[ApocalypseMaiden Galadriel]] matched her height at age nine and is [[HugeSchoolgirl five-foot-ten-and-still-growing]] by the end of her junior year.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': Daenerys' dragons, whom she explicitly considers her children after hatching their eggs, naturally count once they grow beyond their human mother's size.
* In ''Literature/TheUglyAmerican'', 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.
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* ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'': Lurch is 6'9, but the episode "Mother Lurch Visits" reveals that his mother is very short.
* ''Series/TheBoys2019'': "[[Recap/TheBoysS0207ButcherBakerCandlestickMaker Butcher, Baker and Candlestick Maker]]" shows Butcher is taller than both his parents, especially his mother who barely comes up to his collarbone.
* ''Series/CheckItOutWithDrSteveBrule'': Steve Brule's mom Doris Pringle-Brule is positively tiny compared to her son. In the "Bagboy" special, Steve gets down on his knees to hug her, and he's ''still'' a bit taller.
* ''Series/{{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.)
* On ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'', Dorothy is at least a foot taller than her mother Sophia. While this can be partly attributed to Sophia being a {{Miniature Senior Citizen|s}}, flashback episodes show that Dorothy has always been considerably taller than Sophia.
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': Marvin, according to Future-Ted, grew up to be bigger than his mother Lily.
* ''Series/LittlePeopleBigWorld'': 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.
* ''Series/TheLoveBoat'': "The Little People" concerns a dwarf couple, played by Creator/BillyBarty and Creator/PattyMaloney, whose adult son is of normal stature.
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* ''Myth/PaulBunyan'': 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.
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* Dominik Mysterio, at 6 foot 1 and 200 lbs, is on the small side of average size for a pro wrestler. Nonetheless he towers over his 5 foot 6 father Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr.
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[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
* ''Series/TheWubbulousWorldOfDrSeuss'': 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.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* A (very) downplayed case in ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters''. [[TheHero Kyo Kusanagi]], who stands at 181cm[[note]] 5'11" [[/note]] is slightly taller than his father Saisyu, who is 177cm[[note]] 5'10" [[/note]]. It's not that much of a difference, but it doesn't change the fact that Kyo ''is'' slightly taller than his father.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': 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 HotSkittyOnWailordAction can be 200 times larger than daddy Skitty (if the mother is a Wailord) [[InvertedTrope 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.
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'': 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.
* In ''{{VideoGame/Silver}}'', the titular BigBad's son [[TheDragon Fuge]] is much bigger than his father.
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* Loona the {{hellhound}} in ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' towers over all of her fellow [[OurImpsAreDifferent imp]] crewmates at I.M.P., including her adoptive father, Blitzo.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'': One strip features [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} 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.
* ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'': 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 MiniatureSeniorCitizens. 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.
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* ''WebVideo/AcquisitionsIncorporated: The "C" Team'': Rosie Beestinger, an elderly halfling lady, is [[MiniatureSeniorCitizens 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.
* ''WebVideo/PopCrossStudios'': In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w0uSBtMegI&list=PLItBjti8LwWEKlNx5b61vakEKcO4xWS7h&index=20 Famously Cute Characters As Beasts]]'', part of Christian's ''Tayrun the Beast Chronicler'' series, [[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo Nemo]], traditionally depicted as a small, cute clownfish, is painted as the Nemoan Razermaw, a [[CreepyGood creepy but benevolent]] monster clownfish who successfully defended its father from the barracuda that [[YouKilledMyFather killed its siblings]]. From then on, the Razermaw's father raised and protected it, [[BodyguardingABadass despite the fact that it could clearly defend itself]], until the Razermaw reached adulthood, and then [[NowLetMeCarryYou took over as his protector]]. Tayrun the narrator notes that the Razermaw and all its siblings were unusually large for their age.
* ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'': Before the cease-and-desist letter from Creator/{{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 Mario puppet is 5'1 and Jeffy is 22 inches tall, so Jeffy is still larger than his dad.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'':
** Richard is huger and heftier than his mother Jojo, who is a [[MiniatureSeniorCitizens very short old rabbit]]. However, this is averted in the case of his father Frankie, as they are both around the same size.
** It's revealed in "The Colossus" that Hector the giant's mother is a witch who is even shorter than Gumball, and a [[Anime/SpiritedAway Yubaba]] {{Expy}} to boot.
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'': 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 ''{{WesternAnimation/Animaland}}'' short "The Cuckoo" is enormous compared to his non-biological sparrow parents. Justified in that real cuckoos work similarly.
* Creator/FamousStudios's ''WesternAnimation/BabyHuey'' 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'': 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' episode "Height Unseen", in Season 4, features Dexter deciding to make everyone else shorter than him after an experiment with his height and him being the subject of bullying for being really small. In the end, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome the problems of him being huge]] are shown as a BrickJoke.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Denzel Crocker is tall and lanky, and yet his [[MyBelovedSmother doting mother]] is diminutive.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Downplayed. Thelma is only a little shorter than her son Peter, though he's definitely heftier than her.
* ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'': 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries:'' 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': HugeSchoolgirl Patty is much bigger than her parents, who both have dwarfism.
* ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'': 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/KidCosmic'': [[BigBad Fantos]] is a huge purple alien that towers over the entire cast of heroes. His mom on the other hand [[MiniatureSeniorCitizen doesn't even reach up to his knees]].
* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/LegendsOfChima'': 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/LloydInSpace'': Kurt's parents are both smaller than he is, since Blobullons shrink as they age.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
** A series of shorts directed by Creator/ChuckJones featured a dysfunctional version of Literature/TheThreeBears, 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 DeliveryStork accidentally delivering a baby giant to a pair of normal-sized human parents.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** In addition to [[BigLittleBrother 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies2010'': Leonard [=McLeish=] is an average-sized adult man, and he dwarfs his elderly mother Agatha.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons'': Lisa is the tallest of the main raccoon characters and as a result, she towers over her parents.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'': GentleGiant 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 TinyGuyHugeGirl pairing; Mikey apparently inherited her height.
* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': In the DistantFinale, the very short Rigby and Eileen have two very tall daughters. They may take after their very tall uncle Don, however.
* ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'': 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays'': 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).
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E21SimpsonsTallTales Simpson's Tall Tales]]" has the ([[YourSizeMayVary inconsistent]] but at least 10 feet tall) Myth/PaulBunyan (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 [[INeedAFreakingDrink needs some whiskey afterwards]].
* Discussed in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': 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 InterspeciesRomance with a whale.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Teenager Sour Cream towers over his stout stepfather Yellowtail.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': GentleGiant 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 ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' 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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->''"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''', ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire''
A character is noticeably larger than one or more of their parents. Often PlayedForLaughs, but can sometimes be PlayedForDrama. 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 InterspeciesAdoption.
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 MiniatureSeniorCitizens. If the character was ''born'' that large, then it can lead to FridgeHorror as to how the small biological mother birthed them out.
Can overlap with TinyGuyHugeGirl for father-daughter pairings, and HugeGuyTinyGirl for mother-son pairings. See BigLittleBrother for a sibling variation. Contrast PintSizedKid, TeensAreShort, and GiganticAdultsTinyBabies.
This is a lot more common in real life than you'd expect -- so common that [[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease 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 OneHeadTaller than her.
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[[folder: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 [[HugeGuyTinyGirl towers over his wife]].
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Anime/DeltoraQuest'': The EvilSorceress, 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.
* ''Manga/{{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 GentleGiant and quite good with medicinal herbs, a fact that helps get them to warm up to him when the truth comes out.
* ''Manga/MidoriDays'': One dojo owner looks like a junior-high girl, while his son is bigger than any other character in the series.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** 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, [[MiniatureSeniorCitizen Miss Buckin]], who is just over 2 feet tall. He's also about a foot taller than his alleged father Edward Newgate, better known as Whitebeard.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/DungeonTwilight'': Marvin's son Baal is enormous, being at least twice as tall and wide as either of his parents.
* In ''ComicBook/TopTen'', Jeff Smax and his sister Rexa were raised by a dwarven couple, and thus are much taller than either of them.
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* ''ComicStrip/{{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.
* Thorax from ''ComicStrip/NineChickweedLane'' 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.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': Vivienne Graham's elderly mother [[spoiler: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 TwoBeingsOneBody Titan.
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[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}'': Justified; due to being an ''Iguanodon'', Aladar is enormous compared to his [[InterspeciesAdoption lemur adopted parents]] Plio and Yar.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'': Luisa, the musclebound GentleGiant with SuperStrength, towers over everyone else in the Madrigal family, and this includes her parents Julieta and Agustín.
* ''WesternAnimation/FireAndIce'': 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'': Kristoff was raised by trolls. Because he is a human, he is naturally taller than his adoptive mother, Bulda.
* ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeTheMeltdown'': A flashback reveals that Ellie was [[InterspeciesAdoption raised by possums]]. Naturally, being a mammoth, she is gargantuan compared to them, including the mother possum, even as a young calf.
* ''Anime/JackAndTheBeanstalk1974'': 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 ''WesternAnimation/Klaus2019'' 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 ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' series.
* ''WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman'': Downplayed; Sherman is Mr. Peabody's adopted human son who is only a little taller than him.
* ''WesternAnimation/SongOfTheSea'': The short elderly witch Macha has a mountain-sized giant son named Mac Lir.
* ''Anime/SpiritedAway'': Yubaba's son Boh is a massive baby twice the height of his mother. It's implied that he's actually an adult who resembles a baby due to his mother continuing to coddle him into adulthood.
* Cody's brother Glen Maverick in ''WesternAnimation/SurfsUp'' is larger than both Cody ''and'' their mother Edna.
* ''WesternAnimation/TarzanII'': Uto and Kago are huge gorillas who are huger and more muscular than their mother Gunda (who is also a gorilla).
* ''Anime/YouAreUmasou'': ''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.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'': [[Characters/MCUUltron 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 HulkingOut at least).
* Buddy in ''Film/{{Elf}}'' is a human raised by {{Christmas elves}}, and is gigantic compared to his adoptive father figure Papa Elf.
* ''Film/GrownUps'': 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.
* ''Film/HoneyIBlewUpTheKid'': Due to a mishap with a growth ray, Wayne Szalinski's toddler son is turned into a giant that towers over him.
* ''Film/{{Popeye}}'': Mrs. Oxheart is a seemingly frail, bent old lady. Her son Oxblood Oxheart is a MOUNTAIN of a man (and a MightyGlacier in the boxing ring). He's still an unabashed MommasBoy.
* ''Film/StopOrMyMomWillShoot'': According to [=IMDb=], muscular Creator/SylvesterStallone, who plays the police sergeant main character, is 5'9½, fairly average height, yes. But, his overbearing mother is played by petite Creator/EstelleGetty who was a full 11 inches shorter than him at 4'10½.
* ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'':
** ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'': John Connor, here played by the [=6'1''=] Creator/JasonClarke, naturally towers over his mother Sarah Connor (played by Creator/EmiliaClarke) whose head comes up to his chin. Although to be fair, InUniverse Sarah is barely out of her teens whereas her son is in his late 40s, due to TimeTravel.
** ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate'': Grace Harper, played by the [=5'8''=] Creator/MackenzieDavis, likewise towers over her adoptive mother [[spoiler:Dani Ramos]] in the past.
* ''Film/Thir13enGhosts'': The Great Child and the Dire Mother are the ghosts of a 3-foot-tall sideshow performer and her enormous adult son.
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* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** Being a human raised by dwarfs, Carrot is much taller than both his parents and all the other dwarfs.
** Mrs. Atkinson in ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'' 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 ''Literature/ReaperMan'', 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.
* It is mentioned in ''Literature/HarrisonBergeron'' that the titular character is ''seven'' feet tall at 14, clearly much taller than both of his parents.
* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': 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 [[IncredibleShrinkingMan 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.
* ''Literature/MaryPoppins'' and the [[Film/MaryPoppins 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".
* ''Literature/TheSagaOfArrowOdd'': 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.
-->''"I'm at a loss for words," said Vignir.
-->"Why's that?" asked Odd.
-->"I can't believe such a puny-looking little wretch as you could be my father," said Vignir.''
* ''Literature/TheScholomance'': [[TheGhost Gwen Higgins]] is described as a 'petite, pink, English rose', where her daughter [[ApocalypseMaiden Galadriel]] matched her height at age nine and is [[HugeSchoolgirl five-foot-ten-and-still-growing]] by the end of her junior year.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': Daenerys' dragons, whom she explicitly considers her children after hatching their eggs, naturally count once they grow beyond their human mother's size.
* In ''Literature/TheUglyAmerican'', 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.
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* ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'': Lurch is 6'9, but the episode "Mother Lurch Visits" reveals that his mother is very short.
* ''Series/TheBoys2019'': "[[Recap/TheBoysS0207ButcherBakerCandlestickMaker Butcher, Baker and Candlestick Maker]]" shows Butcher is taller than both his parents, especially his mother who barely comes up to his collarbone.
* ''Series/CheckItOutWithDrSteveBrule'': Steve Brule's mom Doris Pringle-Brule is positively tiny compared to her son. In the "Bagboy" special, Steve gets down on his knees to hug her, and he's ''still'' a bit taller.
* ''Series/{{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.)
* On ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'', Dorothy is at least a foot taller than her mother Sophia. While this can be partly attributed to Sophia being a {{Miniature Senior Citizen|s}}, flashback episodes show that Dorothy has always been considerably taller than Sophia.
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': Marvin, according to Future-Ted, grew up to be bigger than his mother Lily.
* ''Series/LittlePeopleBigWorld'': 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.
* ''Series/TheLoveBoat'': "The Little People" concerns a dwarf couple, played by Creator/BillyBarty and Creator/PattyMaloney, whose adult son is of normal stature.
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* ''Myth/PaulBunyan'': 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.
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* Dominik Mysterio, at 6 foot 1 and 200 lbs, is on the small side of average size for a pro wrestler. Nonetheless he towers over his 5 foot 6 father Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr.
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* ''Series/TheWubbulousWorldOfDrSeuss'': 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.
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* A (very) downplayed case in ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters''. [[TheHero Kyo Kusanagi]], who stands at 181cm[[note]] 5'11" [[/note]] is slightly taller than his father Saisyu, who is 177cm[[note]] 5'10" [[/note]]. It's not that much of a difference, but it doesn't change the fact that Kyo ''is'' slightly taller than his father.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': 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 HotSkittyOnWailordAction can be 200 times larger than daddy Skitty (if the mother is a Wailord) [[InvertedTrope 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.
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'': 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.
* In ''{{VideoGame/Silver}}'', the titular BigBad's son [[TheDragon Fuge]] is much bigger than his father.
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* Loona the {{hellhound}} in ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' towers over all of her fellow [[OurImpsAreDifferent imp]] crewmates at I.M.P., including her adoptive father, Blitzo.
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* ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'': One strip features [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} 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.
* ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'': 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 MiniatureSeniorCitizens. 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.
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* ''WebVideo/AcquisitionsIncorporated: The "C" Team'': Rosie Beestinger, an elderly halfling lady, is [[MiniatureSeniorCitizens 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.
* ''WebVideo/PopCrossStudios'': In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w0uSBtMegI&list=PLItBjti8LwWEKlNx5b61vakEKcO4xWS7h&index=20 Famously Cute Characters As Beasts]]'', part of Christian's ''Tayrun the Beast Chronicler'' series, [[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo Nemo]], traditionally depicted as a small, cute clownfish, is painted as the Nemoan Razermaw, a [[CreepyGood creepy but benevolent]] monster clownfish who successfully defended its father from the barracuda that [[YouKilledMyFather killed its siblings]]. From then on, the Razermaw's father raised and protected it, [[BodyguardingABadass despite the fact that it could clearly defend itself]], until the Razermaw reached adulthood, and then [[NowLetMeCarryYou took over as his protector]]. Tayrun the narrator notes that the Razermaw and all its siblings were unusually large for their age.
* ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'': Before the cease-and-desist letter from Creator/{{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 Mario puppet is 5'1 and Jeffy is 22 inches tall, so Jeffy is still larger than his dad.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'':
** Richard is huger and heftier than his mother Jojo, who is a [[MiniatureSeniorCitizens very short old rabbit]]. However, this is averted in the case of his father Frankie, as they are both around the same size.
** It's revealed in "The Colossus" that Hector the giant's mother is a witch who is even shorter than Gumball, and a [[Anime/SpiritedAway Yubaba]] {{Expy}} to boot.
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'': 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 ''{{WesternAnimation/Animaland}}'' short "The Cuckoo" is enormous compared to his non-biological sparrow parents. Justified in that real cuckoos work similarly.
* Creator/FamousStudios's ''WesternAnimation/BabyHuey'' 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'': 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' episode "Height Unseen", in Season 4, features Dexter deciding to make everyone else shorter than him after an experiment with his height and him being the subject of bullying for being really small. In the end, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome the problems of him being huge]] are shown as a BrickJoke.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Denzel Crocker is tall and lanky, and yet his [[MyBelovedSmother doting mother]] is diminutive.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Downplayed. Thelma is only a little shorter than her son Peter, though he's definitely heftier than her.
* ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'': 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries:'' 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': HugeSchoolgirl Patty is much bigger than her parents, who both have dwarfism.
* ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'': 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/KidCosmic'': [[BigBad Fantos]] is a huge purple alien that towers over the entire cast of heroes. His mom on the other hand [[MiniatureSeniorCitizen doesn't even reach up to his knees]].
* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/LegendsOfChima'': 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/LloydInSpace'': Kurt's parents are both smaller than he is, since Blobullons shrink as they age.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
** A series of shorts directed by Creator/ChuckJones featured a dysfunctional version of Literature/TheThreeBears, 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 DeliveryStork accidentally delivering a baby giant to a pair of normal-sized human parents.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** In addition to [[BigLittleBrother 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies2010'': Leonard [=McLeish=] is an average-sized adult man, and he dwarfs his elderly mother Agatha.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons'': Lisa is the tallest of the main raccoon characters and as a result, she towers over her parents.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'': GentleGiant 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 TinyGuyHugeGirl pairing; Mikey apparently inherited her height.
* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': In the DistantFinale, the very short Rigby and Eileen have two very tall daughters. They may take after their very tall uncle Don, however.
* ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'': 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays'': 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).
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E21SimpsonsTallTales Simpson's Tall Tales]]" has the ([[YourSizeMayVary inconsistent]] but at least 10 feet tall) Myth/PaulBunyan (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 [[INeedAFreakingDrink needs some whiskey afterwards]].
* Discussed in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': 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 InterspeciesRomance with a whale.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Teenager Sour Cream towers over his stout stepfather Yellowtail.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': GentleGiant 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 ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' 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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!!!Indexes: NoRealLife.TooCommon, TheParentTrope, SonOfTropeDaughterOfIndex, HeightTropes
