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** Childhood malnutrition (that Carl, thankfully, didn't suffer from) stunted Alice and Bob's growth, leaving them as MiniatureSeniorCitizens.
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* '''Zig-Zagged''': Carl is taller than his mom, but still shorter than his dad.
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* '''Zig-Zagged''': '''Zig-Zagged''':
** Carl is taller than his mom, but still shorter than hisdad.dad.
** Carl and/or his parents can shapeshift. Their size depends on which form they're currently in.
** Carl is taller than his mom, but still shorter than his
** Carl and/or his parents can shapeshift. Their size depends on which form they're currently in.
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* '''Straight''': Carl is taller than his parents Alice and Bob.
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* '''Straight''': Carl is taller than 6'5" to his parents Alice Alice, who's 5'3" and Bob.Bob, who's 5'7".
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** Alice and Bob are little people, but Carl is over 7 feet tall.
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** Alice and Bob are little people, below 5'0", but Carl is over 7 feet tall.
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* '''Inverted''': Carl has very tall parents, but he's extremely short.
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* '''Inverted''': Carl has very tall parents, parents well past the 7'0" mark, but he's extremely short.barely 5 feet tall.
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* '''Downplayed''': Alice is so short, Carl being one head taller than her simply places him at average height.
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* '''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed''':
** Alice is so short, Carl being one head taller than her simply places him at averageheight.height.
** Carl is the product of a HugeGuyTinyGirl or HugeGirlTinyGuy pairing. He is significantly taller than one parent but the same size or shorter than the other.
** Alice is so short, Carl being one head taller than her simply places him at average
** Carl is the product of a HugeGuyTinyGirl or HugeGirlTinyGuy pairing. He is significantly taller than one parent but the same size or shorter than the other.
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* '''Downplayed''': Carl is a little taller than his mom Alice.
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* '''Downplayed''': Alice is so short, Carl is a little being one head taller than his mom Alice.her simply places him at average height.
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** Carl is a robot or other artificial being, and was built to be very large.
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'''Basic Trope''': A character who is larger than their parent(s).
* '''Straight''': Carl is taller than his parents Alice and Bob.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Alice and Bob are little people, but Carl is over 7 feet tall.
** Everyone in the story is larger than their parents.
** Carl was ''born'' that large.
* '''Downplayed''': Carl is a little taller than his mom Alice.
* '''Justified''':
** Can be TruthInTelevision, especially if Alice and/or Bob carry an allele for taller height despite not actually showing it.
** Carl follows some sort of fitness routine that makes him much more muscular than his parents are.
** InterspeciesAdoption is at play, and Carl is of a species that's much larger than Alice and Bob's.
** Carl and his parents are from a species in which the infants grow bigger than their parents and get smaller as they get older.
* '''Inverted''': Carl has very tall parents, but he's extremely short.
* '''Subverted''': Carl is introduced with a couple who are shown to be much smaller than him, but they turn out to not be his parents.
* '''Double Subverted''': His real parents are even smaller.
* '''Parodied''': Carl is a baby, but he's already larger than both of his parents, who treat it as something mundane.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': Carl is taller than his mom, but still shorter than his dad.
* '''Averted''':
** Carl is not much larger than his parents.
** Carl's parents are never mentioned.
* '''Enforced''': The actor who plays Carl happened to be taller than the people playing Alice and Bob, so they decided to work it into the story.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Wow, Carl, how are you so tall when your parents are such short little things?"
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Implied''': Carl's parents are TheGhost, but there is mention that he's taller than them.
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* '''Straight''': Carl is taller than his parents Alice and Bob.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Alice and Bob are little people, but Carl is over 7 feet tall.
** Everyone in the story is larger than their parents.
** Carl was ''born'' that large.
* '''Downplayed''': Carl is a little taller than his mom Alice.
* '''Justified''':
** Can be TruthInTelevision, especially if Alice and/or Bob carry an allele for taller height despite not actually showing it.
** Carl follows some sort of fitness routine that makes him much more muscular than his parents are.
** InterspeciesAdoption is at play, and Carl is of a species that's much larger than Alice and Bob's.
** Carl and his parents are from a species in which the infants grow bigger than their parents and get smaller as they get older.
* '''Inverted''': Carl has very tall parents, but he's extremely short.
* '''Subverted''': Carl is introduced with a couple who are shown to be much smaller than him, but they turn out to not be his parents.
* '''Double Subverted''': His real parents are even smaller.
* '''Parodied''': Carl is a baby, but he's already larger than both of his parents, who treat it as something mundane.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': Carl is taller than his mom, but still shorter than his dad.
* '''Averted''':
** Carl is not much larger than his parents.
** Carl's parents are never mentioned.
* '''Enforced''': The actor who plays Carl happened to be taller than the people playing Alice and Bob, so they decided to work it into the story.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Wow, Carl, how are you so tall when your parents are such short little things?"
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Implied''': Carl's parents are TheGhost, but there is mention that he's taller than them.
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