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— A comment on this fan-art of Chiasmata on Tumblr "His cute little blush. Her bright face. The height difference".

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Men are usually bigger than women, right? Well, most of the time, but there are cases in which a woman will be taller than her love interest, either because she's unusually tall or because he's unusually short. Sometimes it's both; sometimes the girl is a good deal wider than the guy as well. Generally the first example goes under Statuesque Stunner, while the second goes in Big Beautiful Woman, but either one could also be an Amazonian Beauty.

When this trope happens, the guy might feel self-conscious about dating a woman larger than him, or the girl might feel similarly insecure about dating a man much shorter/smaller than her (and let's not talk about if she wears heels...). But in other cases, the guy will find a woman attractive not despite how tall she is, but partly because of it. Of course, this particular height-contrast lends itself to what the boyfriend might call Marshmallow Heaven.

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Naturally, the Counter Trope of Huge Guy, Tiny Girl and One Head Taller. Can be related to Ugly Guy, Hot Wife if the man has cartoonish features while the woman is more realistically proportioned, or occasionally with Hot Guy, Ugly Wife if the man looks handsome (or at least normal) while the woman is a mannish or even monstrous hulk. It may overlap with Amazonian Beauty, Statuesque Stunner, Big Beautiful Woman, or Chubby Mama, Skinny Papa. Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy is a Sister Trope, and the two are often found together. See also Giant Woman, because sometimes a giantess will fall in love with a human man.

If you have an entire species with this, you may have a case of Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism.

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Examples:

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A series of British Public Service Announcements during the 1960s featured a cartoon couple called Joe and Petunia, who would get into dangerous situations to show the viewer what not to do. Joe was drawn as a tiny little man while Petunia was obese and almost twice as tall.

A non-romantic example is seen between one-off character Ms. Pink compared to Snap, Crackle and Pop in a set of Canadian commercials. She towers over the three of them by about double their height. Despite this huge size gap, all four of them are still only inches tall.

Anime & Manga

Arts

This is a staple of French cartoonist Albert Dubout 's illustrations. He especially pushed the size difference to Exaggerated Trope level, having the husbands being midgets compared to their huge, heavyset battleaxe wives with Gag Boobs. Observe.

Comic Books

Comic Strips

Chester Gould used this trope twice in Dick Tracy; first with Jerome Trohs and Mamma; then again with Heels Beals and Acres O' Reilly.

During the high school days of Safe Havens, there was Gerald and Bambi, a diminutive computer nerd and a tall BBW respectively. They started going out because they were so mismatched. After their relationship got strained by Gerald going to a different college, Bambi becoming a professional singer, and Gerald's growth spurt making him as tall as Bambi, they amicably broke up (to her agent Jenny's consternation, as nice Break Up Songs don't do well on the charts).

Fan Works

Films — Animation

Films — Live-Action

Jokes

A very tall girl standing 188 cm goes to her doctor for advice. She explains that her boyfriend has dwarfism and is only 122 cm tall. Embarrassed, she explains her concerns to the doctor: "Will we... you know... be able to do it?" The doctor ponders on this for a second or two and then smiles. "There should be no problems at all. The human race encompasses all shapes and sizes and there's nothing physical that's going to prevent you both from enjoying a healthy sex life... The problem is, you won't have anyone to talk to."

A Mathematician's Answer pun: Tiny Guy: What would you say to a little fuck?

Huge Girl: I'd say: "Hello, little fuck." According to an anecdote, this actually happened to 5'3" sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison when he tried to pick up a much taller woman.

Literature

Live-Action TV

Music

Ragtime-era songs like "Can You Tame Wild Wimmen" (Sterling/Von Tilzer, 1918) tend to feature little guys terrified of their huge girlfriends/wives who, in classic slapstick tradition, usually use rolling pins as weapons.

The 1930s song "Everyone Has Sex Appeal for Someone" by Ronald Frankau contains the lines: "There's the little chap who married someone statuesque and grand / He's worn himself to ribbons, at least I understand / Through climbing up to kiss her and sliding back to land / so she must have had some sex appeal for him."

The 1958 Bill Haley & His Comets classic "Skinny Minnie" is from the point of view of a shorter man dating a gal who is "1.8 m high and 30 cm thick."

Joan Armatrading's "I Love It When You Call Me Names" is about a "big woman and a short, short man."

Music Videos

In the animation in the video for "Fritz, Fritz, Love My Tits".

Porcelain Black (5'10"/178 cm) and Lil Wayne (5'5"/165 cm) in Porcelain's video for "This Is What Rock N Roll Looks Like"; it doesn't help that she's wearing heels. Also an example of A Wild Rapper Appears!

Myths & Religion

A Native American (possibly Navajo) legend features a giant who meets a human man and wants to try wife-swapping. The human woman is killed while the human man is dissolved.

In Classical Mythology, the god Phorcys is a lobster-like merman, and his wife Keto is a whale. Literally.

Pinballs

Boris and Natasha from The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends, appropriately enough.

Pro Wrestling

Somewhat with former Intergendered Tagteam/Power Couple Glamarella. Although not taller, Beth Phoenix is clearly more muscular (and more dangerous) than her partner/boyfriend Santino Marella. The irony goes on as Beth's real live husband at the time, All Knighters' Joey Knight, is ALSO less muscular than she is. Nowadays, Beth is with Edge (they have a child together) who, like the others, is very fit but doesn't have the biceps she does.

During the early years of D-Generation X, Chyna was not as tall as faction leader Shawn Michaels, but, relative to size, she looked a lot more muscular than the lightly muscled Michaels. Just to drive the point home, she was also his bodyguard.

Puny manager Harvey Wippleman and his huge "girlfriend", Bertha Faye, from the WWF in the mid-90's.

In TNA, 8-time X-division (read: small) champion Chris Sabin with the huge Alpha Female.

Puppet Shows

Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy of The Muppets is a famous example. They exaggerate the trope by playing on her temper (made scarier by her size) and his meekness (made funnier by his size). Piggy's actually karate-chopped Kermit on occasion, thus bringing up another trope.

Roleplay

A platonic example in Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues. Sebastian is 4'9", very short for his age and tied for the shortest member of the cast. His symbiotic ride-along, Fesxis, is a whopping 9 feet, almost twice his height.

Tabletop Games

In Rocket Age, Maduri men aren't exactly small, towering over most humans, but the women are giants, more heavily muscled and tusked. This is due to genetic engineering; the women were engineered for defence, while the men were engineered for offence.

In Eberron, House Tharashk is composed of a large group of human, orc, and half-orc families. Though the books don't dwell on it much, it's pretty clear that this relationship and its inverse are very common, whether through clan endogamy or unrelated humans and orcs marrying into the House.

In BattleTech, Victor Steiner-Davion is noted as being only 1.6 m, unusually short compared to the women he consorted with, neither of whom has a notable height.

Theatre

The all-male comedy ballet troupe Les Ballets Trockadero De Monte Carlo makes a point of casting a huge guy in the lead female role and a tiny guy in the lead male role in Swan Lake, just for the comic effect it gives to some of the traditional ballet moves.

A 2007 production of William Shakespeare's Cymbeline cast David Collings as King Cymbeline and the much taller (and younger) Gwendoline Christie as the villainous queen.

Video Games

Visual Novels

Super Danganronpa 2: Peko and Fuyuhiko. Though she's only a little over 170 cm, she still is considerably taller than Fuyuhiko. She was raised alongside Fuyuhiko by his Yakuza family to be his own personal hitman and bodyguard .

Web Animation

Mystery Skulls Animated: Lewis's beloved adoptive parents Mrs. and Mr. Pepper. In a character lineup he's one of the shortest adults in the series while she is the tallest human outside her incredibly tall adoptive son himself. Notably in a sticker where Lewis is hugging both of them he's picking up his father with one arm while just hugging his mother with the other.

Satina has Dave, a normal sized guy and Lucia, the Queen of Hell, a Giant Woman.

Web Comics

Western Animation

Real Life