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Contradictions arising from the implications of this trope can get involved in pretty much any facet of fiction involving [[Writers Cannot Do Math|math]], from [[Dawson Casting]] to [[Power Level|bizarre tiers of superpowers]]. Sorting algorithm tropes can mitigate this to a large extent, as it avoids measuring anything objectively by instead only measuring things relative to other fictional objects. Even then, size and height is a consistent problem area, as most mundane objects do have general sizes, even if the writers forget this.
[[Your Size May Vary]] is a subtrope. [[Bizarrchitecture]] is what happens when an artist deliberately invokes this trope to create an eerie, otherworldly effect as opposed to an [[Off
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* Supposedly in ''[[Bully (Video Game)|Bully]]'', Petey Kowlaski is short for a boy of 15. This would not be a problem if Jimmy and Gary weren't so (relatively speaking) close to his height. Either Jimmy and Gary are short too or the female students at the school are about 6'5" each.
** Girls do tend to be taller than boys at that age, earlier puberty making them grow sooner but not as much. Probably not that tall, though.
* ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' characters are often cited by official supplementary material as having ages which seem [[Improbable Age|absurdly young]] compared to [[Artistic Age|their in-game sprites and portraits]], not to mention their roles in the story. Perhaps the most [[Egregious]] example being the Mysidian [[Half
** Another [[Egregious]] example is Quistis Trepe in ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'', a Garden instructor who the manual identifies as being the ''same age'' as most of her students, which may make the school's hesitancy at her competence a little more understandable. For once, this is somewhat plot-relevant. {{spoiler|We even get to see it when the characters travel to Trabia Garden and they remember that almost all of them grew up in the same orphanage, Quistis included.}}
*** Quistis is one year older than most of the key characters and graduated in the previous class. So the Garden was indeed a little hesitant, but not about her abilities (which were quite ample, thank you) -- it was mostly about her ''inexperience''.
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