Basic Trope: A relationship between a large man and a small woman.
- Straight:
- Alice and Bob love each other. Bob is 6'4 (193 cm) tall, and Alice is 5'5 (165 cm) tall.
- One Head Taller.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice and Bob love each other. Bob is seven feet (214 cm) tall, and Alice is five feet (152 cm) tall.
- Bob is fifty feet tall and Alice is six inches.
- Bob is the size of a planet, while Alice is the size of a mushroom spore.
- Downplayed: Alice and Bob love each other. Bob is a little above the average man, while Alice is a little below the average woman.
- Justified:
- Alice's family comprises mainly shorter-than-average people, and Bob's family comprises mainly taller-than-average people.
- Bob is slightly older than Alice.
- Alice and Bob belong to a species in which the males are larger than the females.
- Alice is attracted to tall men, while Bob is attracted to short women.
- Alice has known Bob since before he hit his growth spurt
- Inverted: Tiny Guy, Huge Girl.
- Subverted: Bob is shown to be one feet taller than Alice, but it's revealed that Bob is a tiny alien in a Mobile-Suit Human. Alice knows all about this and is fine with it.
- Double Subverted: ...because she's a slightly tinier alien in a smaller Mobile-Suit Human.
- Parodied: Bob is large enough to have his own gravitational pull; Alice lives on him. Apparently they have a healthy sex life... and their children are average sized.
- Zig-Zagged: Alice and Bob find shrink rays and growth rays. Hilarity Ensues.
- Alice is absolutely minuscule, but Bob is around the average height.
- Averted: Bob and Alice are on even heights.
- Enforced: Bob is The Big Guy, drawn in a caricaturish Heroic Build way, but the animators were told Alice had to be "cute" and thus realistically human-sized, even on the petite side, even though that made her and Bob's physiques drastically different.
- Lampshaded:Alice: Yes, I know he's like five feet taller than me, but I still love him!
- Invoked: Alice wants to feel protected, so she looks for a big man to give her protection and romance.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alive refuses to go out with Bob, because she'd feel ridiculous standing next to him.
- Discussed: "A guy with cartoonish proportions like that? I bet you his wife is tiny."
- Implied: Bob is never seen, but Alice talks about how tall he is.
- Played For Drama: Bob worries about being physically imposing & clumsy, and making Alice feel threatened; Alice worries about being overlooked or ignored. These issues are a source of friction in their relationship.
- Played For Laughs: Bob and Alice's physical mismatch is played as a slapstick duo: Big Guy, Little Guy with a Gender Flip, because Slapstick knows no gender!
Back to Huge Guy, Tiny Girl.
