One Head Taller/Playing With

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Basic Trope: The guy is noticeably taller than his female companion.

  • Straight: Bob's head is above Alice's due to his height.
  • Exaggerated: Huge Guy, Tiny Girl.
    • All the guys are taller than the girls.
  • Justified: Bob's German, Alice is Japanese, or any other racial height difference.
    • There's an age gap.
  • Inverted: Alice is taller than Bob.
  • Subverted: Bob looks to be taller than Alice when we get an above-torso shot of the two, but it turns out that Bob was standing on a cardboard box.
  • Double Subverted: But it turns out that Alice also was on a box, and Bob is still taller than her.
  • Parodied: Regardless of age, race, and overall probability, every man is a lot taller than the women.
  • Deconstructed: ???
  • Reconstructed: ???
  • Zig Zagged: Bob looks taller than Alice in one shot, but he was standing on something, then Alice turns out to be a hologram by the very tiny Alice the Fairy, and Bob turns out to have been cursed to a smaller body, and then it turns out that Alice is a sizeshifter...
  • Averted: Height differences aren't that big.
  • Enforced: ???
  • Lampshaded: "How come all the guys I meet are bigger than their girlfriends?"
  • Invoked: ???
  • Defied: ???
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???

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