Little Boy Seeks Big Girl



For every main girl character, there will usually be a boy in her Three Amigos friendship, or a little brother who doesn't give a dang about her, Or, in some cases, the main character is a boy, but is a child. But wait! The little brother/best friend/little male protagonist has a big crush on either the friend's BFF, the girl of the episode, or a recurring girl character. Said boy would end up having a big crush on the girl until something causes it to end, or if kept, this would be at least Played for Laughs.

This mostly happens in most Preteen shows where the main character is, you guessed it, a girl. only happens when her boy best friend is younger like her, the boy is a child and is the main title character, or if the lead is a teen girl, her little brother. For the girl's part, she would be at least Oblivious to Love to the little boy.

Mostly Precocious Crush meets someone who like older women, but the girl's age never goes higher than 25. Might go as far as Stalker with a Crush.

And no, it has nothing to do with Tiny Guy, Huge Girl or Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy (which inspired the trope's original title).

Anime and Manga

 * In Axis Powers Hetalia, Romano used to have a crush on Belgium while he was living in Spain's house.
 * In Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi, 12-year old Sasshi is this way toward fanservice girl Mune-Mune; which is ironic considering !
 * Naota develops a crush on Haruko in FLCL. It's implied that he's around 12 years old, and she's 21.

Film

 * Anakin and Padme in The Phantom Menace. He's 9, she's 14.
 * Crazy Stupid Love: Robbie has a longstanding crush on Jessica, his babysitter. He's in middle school (so about 12) and she's about 17.
 * Done in an inadvertently disturbing manner in Blank Check. The main character tricks an adult bank teller into going on a date with him and later, she even kisses him on the lips after agreeing to wait a few years.
 * In the Adam Sandler film That's My Boy, Donny Berger has a crush on his hot teacher Miss McGarricle, but it turns out she is actually a pedophile and she begins a sexual relationship with Donny. This results in her getting pregnant and being sent to a woman's prison.
 * In the horror film The VVitch, Caleb show signs of one of the Seven Deadly Sins -- "Lust" -- when he starts to eye on his older sister Thomasin's breast. When he got lost in the woods a witch disguised as a attractive red-hooded woman seduces Caleb and violently rapes him while also shoving a eaten apple down his throat.
 * In Agent Cody Banks, Cody tried to look at his handler Ronica's breasts with his X-Ray glasses until she quickly covers them. His glasses were later "censored" because he was staring at girls when he arrived at Natalie's party.

Literature

 * Bran toward Meera Reed in A Song of Ice and Fire. He's 8 and she's 16.

Live-Action TV

 * Hannah Montana: The first episode of Season 2 has Rico crushing on Miley, even going so far to manipulate her into doing it with him because he knew Miley was scared that "He knows her secret and will spill it out" (she thought that the "secret" was being Hannah Montana). In the end, turns out that the secret was
 * Lizzie McGuire: The episode "Working Girl" had this in effect when Matt was depressed, then Miranda gave him advice, and then he starts falling for her. This went as far as asking her on a date.
 * A.N.T. Farm has Fletcher immediately liking Paisley whenever the latter notices him. Examples are in the episodes "TransplANTed" (as shown in the picture above) and "ManagemANT", but luckily, Chyna doesn't seem to mind. Doubles as a "just for his adorableness" Shotacon in Paisley's part.
 * iCarly had this temporarily in the episode "iHave a Lovesick Teacher" where Freddie is struck with a bit of a crush on their teacher when she came in red for Spencer's date with her.
 * The Suite Life of Zack and Cody has this with Zack over Maddie throughout the show. By On Deck, he got his kiss from her. One of the most memorable moments is in the episode "A Prom Story" where they shared a prom dance.
 * Also from On Deck, the 8-year old prince of Liechtenstein crushing on Maddie. He even was near to marrying her, too!
 * Shake It Up had this in one episode's B-plot, where Ty is teaching Flynn how to attract the girl he likes. The said girl is older than him and is portrayed by the same actress who plays Paisley in the A.N.T. Farm example above (Allie DeBerry).
 * On House, a young boy's overly aggressive pursuit of his crush on Cameron is yet another datum for the Case of the Week.
 * In the first episode of Modern Family, 10-year old Manny writes a love poem to a 17-year old girl.
 * British satire show Big City (a satire of American preteen shows) features Liam Youngs, an 8 year old kid who has a huge crush on his older sister's friend, Mia Sanders, who's 16. In one episode, Liam tricks Mia into going on a date with him.
 * In Jessie, Luke falls in love with older girls including his nanny Jessie (which she finds to be very disturbing). He even implies that he will marry Jessie and will have kids.
 * In the other series Bunk'd, Jorge has similar interest in girls, he even laughs when he sees a bra.
 * In Girl Meets World Farkle has his eyes on Riley and Maya in the first season and plans to use their hair to (possibly) create clones of themselves. a young boy name Yogi has a teenage girlfriend name Darby, some students find there relationship weird.
 * Bernie from Bizaardvark had a crush on Amelia (who is older then him), he eventually lost interest with her in the third season.
 * On the Richie Rich Netflix series, Murray has strange feelings for Richie's robot Irona, Taj also showed interest to her and quoted "a girl with no heart and emotions, yes please!"
 * In Fuller House, Jackson's friend Mankowski has a crush on DJ (which she thinks is odd and creepy). He later gets in a rivalry with Taylor's father who also likes her.
 * On an episode of George Lopez, Max tried to have sex with a woman who was a reformed child molester before being caught by George and Angie.
 * On The New Addams Family, Pugsley had a crush on his female teacher.

Newspaper Comics

 * In Peanuts Linus has a crush on his teacher Miss Othmar.

Web Comics

 * The next-door neighbor's son in the webcomic Out at Home has a crush on Katie's best friend. He's 10; she's 17.

Western Animation

 * The Hey Arnold! episode "Crush on Teacher". Not to mention Arnold's like for Ruth, a sixth-grader, until he ended it because.
 * And alongside Arnold, Gerald had one, too, in "Sixth Grade Girls".
 * In the El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera episode "Wrong and Dance", Manny tries to take three teenage bad girls (Tattoo, Chainsaw, and Patches) to the school dance until they decided to hang with Sergio because he is bad.
 * My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has Spike, who is sort of like an adopted son to Twilight Sparkle, in her social circle as a result of being her only friend before going with her to Ponyville to encourage her to make some more friends, and has a major crush on Rarity, who is in said social circle.
 * The Simpsons: Bart Simpson had a one-episode crush on his baby sitter Laura, he later started dating other teenage girls like Gina, Darcy, Annika and eventually Shauna (who has shown her breast to Bart). He also had crushes on adult women such as Caroline and Zhenya. In a future episode where he's a adult, after getting over his divorce with his ex-wife Jenda, he has slept with multiple women including one of the school teachers Miss Hoover.
 * In A Kind of Magic Tom is in love with his teacher Miss Tinker. He even has a dream sequence where he is taller and dancing with her.
 * In Adventure Time, 13-year-old Finn had a crush on 18-year-old Princess Bubblegum. He then moved on to Flame Princess (who is his age) and Huntress Wizard.
 * Ferb from Phineas and Ferb, given the Vague Age of being "under 15", has a crush on the Vanessa Doofenshmirtz, who has her Sweet 16 party in an early episode. Word of God says they'll go on a date at least once when they're older.
 * Buford has been implied to be in love with Phineas and Ferb's 15-year-old sister Candace. In "Chez Platypus" he didn't allow Jeremy and her in the restaurant which hints that he is jealous.  The boy's biggest fan Irving also shows affection to Candace and her best friend Stacy.
 * In Gravity Falls Dipper has a crush on Wendy and tried to do things to impress her. In "Into The Bunker" Wendy found out his secret and told them that they should just be friends, which Dipper agrees.
 * Dexter's Laboratory: Dexter has a crush on his teenage baby sitter and Dee Dee's replacement Candi. his teacher Miss Wimple also shows interest in the Boy Genius.
 * Bling Bling Boy from Johnny Test is in love with Susan which she disproves of, he will try everything to win her heart (including bribery and kidnapping).
 * 11-year-old Johnny eventually draws attention to Dark Vegan's daughter Jillian who is 15, in "Sleepover at Johnny's" he mistakenly kisses her which makes her father tried to separate Johnny from her (literally with his laser sword).
 * On an episode of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Mac and Bloo (including a pizza guy and a imaginary friend) instantly fall for Frankie until they found out she has a date with a jerk.
 * In Chowder Mung immediately has an interest in women when he was a apprentice after learning to say "Ladies" which is how he got his big teeth.
 * In one Family Guy episode, Stewie has a crush on his teen/young adult baby sitter. Eventually he grow tired of women and decided to become Gay (which is disturbing since he is a toddler).
 * On Rick and Morty, 14 year old Morty (who looks more younger) has multiple relationships with other girls such as Jessica and Annie but also with adult women like Stacy and Jacqueline. one time his uncle Rick buys him a sex robot from a alien pawnshop so he can have sex whenever he wants, but what he didn't knew that the robot is also use to produce offspring and gives birth to Morty's half human/alien son name Morty Jr.
 * A character from BoJack Horseman name "Vincent Adultman" was Princess Carolyn's ex-boyfriend who claims to be a adult, Bojack implies that he is just three boys stack together that dress up like a man (which nobody believes him). He is said to had a ex-wife who is actually his mother, Kevin is the only one fully seen and pretended to be Vincent's son.
 * In Code Lyoko Odd has dated almost every girl in the Kadic Academy who is his age or older.
 * Hiroki's friend Johnny falls for Yumi which makes Ulrich feel uncomfortable giving him dating advice.
 * In Victor and Valentino Val immediately blush when he hold Xochi's waist, hinting he maybe likes her.
 * Animaniacs shows that Yakko and Wacko have a interest in older women even though they are (possibly) too little, they often target Scratchansniff's assistant Miss. Nurse which makes them shout "Hello Nurse!" Dot thinks her brothers obsession to be disgusting (even though she herself likes older men).
 * On an episode of South Park, Ike drew a picture for his teacher Miss Stevenson which shows that he likes her, but Miss Stevenson took it too literally and instantly falls for Ike, resulting him to have sex with her. Kyle see this to be unhealthy for his 5-year-old brother while other guys (especially the police) thinks it's "nice" believing him to be lucky.
 * Timmy from The Fairly OddParents has a crush on Trixie Tang (who is taller than him) and will try anything to get her attention, upon the third day of F.L.A.R.G. He got amnesia after almost beginning a relationship with a grown woman name Carly which they both get love tattoos with each others name. When he was in Hawaii with his parents and fairies, he immediately falls for a woman in a grass skirt when she gave him a flower necklace.
 * In The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius Jimmy falls for school sweetheart Betty Quinlan (which makes her Cindy's love rival), he and his friends also show affection to other girls including the attractive woman Beautiful Gorgeous who is the daughter of Professor Calamitous.
 * Carl unknowingly develops a crush on Jimmy's mother.
 * In The Davincibles Pablo is in love with Quba's daughter Cherie which she neglects his existence and also misspelling his name.
 * In Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil Kick is a frenemy of the school's "teachers pet" Kendall who is starting to have interest towards him, Kick also imagines her in a dream as a Tankini Lumberjack (which his brother Brad is obsessed with). He then develop feelings with a 15 year old girl name Scarlett who is a stunt double of his sister's favorite show. Gunther tried to ask Teena Sometimes for a date but instead she makes he other double (who is a man) to go with him, making Gunther thrown.
 * Clyde from The Loud House has a embarrassing crush on Lincoln's oldest sister Lori, whenever he sees or mentions her his nose starts bleeding and make robot sounds. In the episode "Study Muffin" Lincoln and his classmates keep failing they're test because of the substitute teacher Ms. DiMartino, because she is so attractive the student are distracted by her beauty.
 * It is also mentioned that Bobby's young cousin Carlino has his eyes on Lori who tries to take her away from his arms and into his.
 * In Codename: Kids Next Door Number 2 has a crush on Number 5's big sister Cree (who is working for the Adults and is a teenager). He eventually was kissed by her twice -- once when he turned himself to a teenager and once when he had a dream/nightmare.
 * This is also shown to Number 4's feelings to his teammate Number 3 who is taller than him.
 * On My Gym Partner's a Monkey, Adam Lyon is head over heels for Kerry Anderson from his old school after getting transferred to Charles Darwin Middle School, Adam always feel nervous when he talks to her at the bus stop.
 * In the episode "Mysterious Mayhem at Mutant High!" of The Super Hero Squad Show, Reptil (who is said to be 15) tries to flirt with the X-Academy cheerleader Jean Grey/Marvel Girl who is a adult.  This makes Cyclops to tell him to stay away from her. This is not confirmed since everyone in the show looks short.
 * On Wayside, Todd accidentally ate Miss Mush's "mushroom surprise" and unknowingly falls for his teacher Mrs. Jewls which makes Maurecia tries to snap him out of his trance.
 * Mikey is in love with Sophie Sanders in Bunsen is a Beast. In the series finale it is revealed that she secretly likes Mikey and became his girlfriend.
 * In Dragons: Race to the Edge Snotlout's admirer Gustav (now 16) has a crush on Astrid, which she finds to be creepy.
 * Tails in Sonic Boom falls for another fox named Zooey who looks older than him since he is 8. He eventually wins her heart in the episode "Tails' Crush" after rescuing her from one of Dr. Eggman's plans.
 * On The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Dr. Robotnik creates a female robot hedgehog name Breezie to distract Sonic so he can destroy the underground Wells of Mobius. Sonic wrote her a love letter that changes her ways and she becomes his ally. In another episode she eventually marries Robotnik's "son" Robotnik Jr., who is also a robot created by him.
 * In Sonic Says, Sonic teaches kids what to do in cases of possible sexual harassment and says that it's "No Good."