Is the title of this trope literal? It seems to me that the examples should be about people who are (more-or-less) exactly one head taller than their love interest, but the examples seem to be a more general discussion of the relative heights of love interests in various works. What gives?
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That's true. It would seem that any case where the taller isn't roughly one head taller ought not to apply here, rather they would be better under the relative tropes to this matter. Huge Guy, Tiny Girl and the reverse Tiny Guy, Huge Girl. However, these two tropes seem to be more the extremes of this matter. All three tropes are pretty vague on where one ends and another begins. What defines "huge" or "tiny" so that being 1-head tall doesn't qualify but would 1.5 heads?
The fact that a man is taller than a woman is People Sit On Chairs, right? Hardly surprising. It makes sense to single out cases where the size difference is especially great (Huge Guy, Tiny Girl), reversed (Tiny Guy, Huge Girl), or in this case, when the man and woman are perfectly matched in height so that the woman's head fits under the man's chin, and maybe even then, it should only be listed in this trope if the heights are chosen for aesthetic reasons: e.g. there's a scene of them hugging which emphasizes the fact, or maybe a lead has a string of boyfriends/girlfriends which are all the same height.
Badly needs a new page image — the quality of this one is pretty low, no offence to the artist, and the light colours make it hard to see on screen.
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Removed this example. Seems like shoehorning and the second bullet makes an argument against it.