Basic Trope: The Leader crossed in with The Big Guy.
- Straight: General Gargantua is the leader, and he is considerably more physically imposing than anyone else.
- Exaggerated:
- Garantua is the leader, and Your Size May Vary applies hard, to the point where he only has one size: Bigger than EVERY other character.
- Gargantua is big enough to crush a tank underfoot.
- Downplayed:
- Justified:
- Gargantua, being bigger and stronger, rose to the top through Asskicking Leads to Leadership.
- Gargantua is of a different species that is larger than the species of the subordinates.
- The subordinates are scared of Gargantua because he's so big. So they do whatever he says.
- Gargantua is able to buy more food or afford fattier food than his subordinates, making him fatter than them.
- Gargantua's species grows Stronger with Age. Gargantua is simply the oldest of them, and is respected for it.
- Gargantua is The Leader for other reasons; Be it being level headed, headstrong, charismatic, or calculating, he's the ideal leader. His height just so happened to aid him.
- Inverted: General Menachur is shorter than his subordinates.
- Subverted:
- General Gargantua was actually under mind-control by a very small person...
- Captain Gargantua, despite being in charge of a small group, is actually The Big Guy / The Brute of his organisation.
- Double Subverted:
- ...who, in turn, is revealed to be controlled by a giant.
- Gargantua is still exercising authority over the Red Shirts / Mooks, so he still counts as this.
- Parodied:
- All the organization members' heights are measured before their joining. As soon as someone is found to be taller than the leader, the latter is stripped of his rank and the new member takes their place, regardless of leadership experience.
- Gargantua combines Large and in Charge with Young and in Charge: He may be huge, but in the end, he's a relatively youthful kid in comparison to his lackeys.
- Zig Zagged: Gargantua is huge, but, when he is killed, it is revealed that a 2' man was operating him from inside his torso; he was an android. However, the "dwarf" reveals that he had shrunk himself in order to control the android, and quickly reverts to his actual great size. However, it is later revealed than he, too, was under the influence of a very short person, but it is later revealed that the masterminds behind the plan are actually shapeshifters who can change their height at will.
- Averted:
- The leader is no more physically imposing than any other members of the organisation.
- Gargantua is The Big Guy or The Brute depending on the Organisation's morality, and has no control over it, not even a single group.
- Enforced: "We need an easy way to make Gargantua stand out from the crowd and also make it clear that he is the boss."
- Lampshaded:
- "I may be seven feet in height, but I still got other reasons why I'm in charge!"
- "That's not a king, that's a castle with legs!"
- Invoked: "I'm going to eat well so that when I grow up, I get to be big and become the leader."
- Exploited: Gargantua's size makes him stand out from his troops, and he gets anticlimactically gunned down by a sniper team, who may not even have known how important Gargantua actually was at the time, he just stood out and was therefore the best target at the time.Gustav: "That was the leader? Well, you know what they say. The nail that stands out gets hammered down."
- Defied:
- "No, no, no. Don't think that just because you're the tallest you'll get to be in charge of this team."
- "Nah, I'd let someone else take the reins, preferably someone with a pair of brains."
- Discussed: "See the big guy in front? He's obviously the leader. Shoot him first."
- Conversed: "You know, it's always the largest ones that order the others around..."
- Deconstructed:
- Gargantua's size is the only trait that his subordinates see in him, and he subsequently grows depressed that he is looked up to only for his physical prowess.
- See exploited.
- Reconstructed:
Back to Large and in Charge.
