Basic Trope: A nickname that doesn't fit them at all.
- Straight: Bob is known as Tiny, but he's 2 meters tall.
- Exaggerated: Bob is known as Tiny Widdle Bug, but he's literally the size of a bus.
- Downplayed: Bob is known as Tiny, but he's slightly larger than normal.
- Justified:
- "Tiny" for a huge person is a common ironic nickname. His friends like irony.
- Bob was tiny as a teenager, but underwent a growth spurt and became huge.
- "Tiny" Bob comes from a place where the average height of a person/mutant/whatever is 4 meters tall. His nickname surely was not ironic over there.
- Inverted: Meaningful Nickname: Bob is two meters tall, and his friends call him Big Guy.
- Subverted: Alice is told that Bob is nicknamed Tiny, and Alice expects Bob to be huge. When she meets Bob, he is actually tiny.
- Double Subverted: ... but when Alice fights Bob, he transforms into a huge muscled man.
- Parodied:
- Bob is known as The Ironically Nicknamed. "You see, it's an ironic nickname, because my nickname isn't actually that ironic."
- Bob is nicknamed Tiny. He is the size of Robert Wadlow
. It is eventually revealed that the nickname is for his Teeny Weenie.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Bob's nickname is Tiny. He actually is Tiny.
- Enforced: The writer felt readers would want a huge man to have an ironic name such as Tiny.
- Lampshaded: "Oh dear god! Why would someone named 'Tiny' be so huge?".
- Invoked: Bob's friends love irony, and thus they nicknamed him Tiny.
- Exploited: A villain nicknames his henchman "Tiny" to trick the heroes into underestimating him.
- Defied: "Sorry, no. I'm huge, and I will not be called Tiny."
- Discussed: "I bet this 'Tiny' is actually huge."
- Conversed: "Do you think 'Tiny' is a good name for a huge man?"
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