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Expecting Someone Taller
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So it's been a while since you answered the Call to Adventure, and you've had some successes. Spectacular successes, even. Everyone has heard of what you've done and everyone knows your name. . . but they don't know what you look like, and you don't exactly look the part. Maybe you're the Kid Hero, Little Miss Badass, Cute Bruiser, Pintsized Powerhouse, a Lady of War with a Tomboyish Name, Really 700 Years Old, or maybe you just lack the movie-star looks everyone associates with a heroic role. Either way, your reputation precedes you, and every time you introduce yourself, people are going to look at you and say "Oh! I was expecting someone taller...". Or worse, they'll ask if you've met/heard of/know of... well... you. Then you have to say Actually, I Am Him. Or even worse, they'll think your associate is you, and then you have to say Actually, That's My Assistant. Alternatively, maybe you're just a Dirty Coward with an Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance who happened to be in the vicinity of great events. Can be Truth in Television — research has shown that people make links between people's height and their perceived success, even if they know nothing about them. May overlap with Shrouded in Myth, where it's the exaggerated reputation or description that causes the disappointment. Can lead into a Warts and All plotline, where they can realize their expectations are wrongheaded. If someone is simply commenting mockingly on the height of another character with no reference to their reputation, see Acceptable Targets or The Napoleon. See also Beauty Equals Goodness, Mistaken Age, Recognition Failure, Badass on Paper, Nothing Is Scarier. Not to be confused with the Tom Holt comic fantasy novel, Expecting Someone Taller. |
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Aquaman: Two examples in Arthur and Orm's first duel. When Arthur hears that he and Orm will duel in "the Ring of Fire", he assumes that the small private chamber with the lava circle is where the duel will take place. Uh... no. That's the green room. The real Ring of Fire is an open water arena with a couple of thousand Atlanteans gearing up to watch their king kick the renegade's half-breed bastard into fish food. Similarly, the Atlanteans expect Arthur and Orm's Duel to the Death to be a Curb-Stomp Battle. They quickly realize that Arthur is capable of giving his brother a run for his money. |
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Sherlock: When the eponymous character, newly famous, meets an employee of the British government: | |
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Watchmen: Rorschach is the super strong, intelligent, horrifying scourge of the underworld; also rather short, homely, red-haired and freckled. When he's caught by the police they discover he wears lifts. | |
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Worm: Eidolon has this effect when he actually talks to people. Though he is unquestionably the most powerful superhero alive, nobody that talks to him actually likes him as a person, even the heroes that he's worked with for years. Skitter also has this effect. Clockblocker even comments, during an Enemy Mine, that she's shorter than she looks when she's not covered in a shroud of insects. |
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Miami Vice: Crockett and his second wife Caitlin have this first impression of each other. | |
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Dinosaur Train: When the kids learn that Eoraptor was one of the first dinosaurs, they assume it's really big, so they're surprised to see that the fully-grown Erma Eoraptor is barely taller than them. In another episode, when Buddy and Tiny hear Daphne Daspletosaurus' thunderous footsteps, they expect her to be a fully-grown adult, but instead she's a child slightly shorter than Buddy. |
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The Saga of Arrow-Odd: When Vignir, Odd's son with the giantess Hildigunn, meets his father for the first time, he is stumped that Odd is a normal-sized person, i.e. what amounts to a midget in the eyes of a giant. | |
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In Count Duckula, when Duckula had some movie producers come to make a movie of his life, the producers ended up casting Igor for the part instead because they weren't expecting the real Count Duckula to be so puny. | |
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Dragon Age: Random dialogue from a Commoner Dwarf in the original game includes a line that she thought humans/a Grey Warden (you) would be taller. Her image of it must be rather skewed... In Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening, an imported Warden can get this (somewhat sarcastic) reaction from Nathaniel Howe upon first encountering him in a prison cell. Inverted in Dragon Age: Inquisition. Cassandra was expecting Hawke to be shorter. Played straight with multiple people, particularly Blackwall, if the Inquisitor is a dwarf. |
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In the introduction to Dangerous Visions, Isaac Asimov and Harlan Ellison recount their first meeting, when young fan Ellison walked up to the elder author and said, "I think you're (Beat) nothing." Ellison was invoking this trope, although Asimov initially took it as something more insulting. | |
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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey: Bill and Ted have this reaction when they go to heaven to find the greatest scientist in history, and discover that he's basically a Wookiee who can split into two Ewoks (or is it two Ewoks who can fuse into a Wookiee?). The Grim Reaper asks them, "Did you expect the greatest scientist in history to be from Earth?" which is probably a valid point. | |
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In Suikoden, some early townspeople will share rumors that Odessa, the leader of La Résistance, is some kind of nine-feet-tall ogre. While Odessa is right there in your party, and completely unnoticed by the townspeople. | |
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Prince Caspian: Reepicheep plays the trope for laughs when he and his fellow mice open a door to admit Trumpkin the dwarf into a room of the castle. Also played by Prince Caspian when meeting the Pevensies, thinking they'd be older. Then again, they actually were older — quite a bit older, actually — the last time they were seen around those parts, due to the fact that they were restored to their original ages upon leaving Narnia, so his expectations were somewhat justified. |
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Old School Musical: When Tib and Rob are looking for the great sage Cloche-Pied, they meet a strange green creature only to find out, to their surprise and slight disappointment, that he's said great sage. When being asked if they were expecting an old man with a beard, Rob admits yes. | |
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In Grave Peril, when Harry and the Knight of the Cross Michael meet the dragon Ferrovax at a Red Court ball and Michael — who is at least six feet and not short by any human definition — reveals that he killed the dragon Siriothrax, all Ferrovax deigns to say is "I thought you would be taller." | |
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The Empire Strikes Back: Luke Skywalker was somewhat surprised on meeting the great Jedi master Yoda, although that's more "I thought you'd be less senile and less likely to steal my lunch." In the storybook-and-record set of Empire made for children, the story is radically condensed in order to fit on a 45-rpm platter. Luke instantly figures out Yoda's identity upon meeting him and says, "I was expecting someone larger!" | |
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Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return has the princess of Dainty China Country say this to Dorothy. After being touted as the slayer of witches, though, it could be justified. Although ironically, the princess herself doesn't even go up to Dorothy's knee. | |
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The Gamers: "Make way for the bandit king! all hail the Bandit King! Hail! Hail!" | |
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When the residents of Pop Star learn that a mighty Star Warrior is coming, Tiff pictures a handsome, sword-wielding hero vaguely similar to Roy. Instead, she gets... Kirby. Her imagined expectation literally shatters to pieces. | |
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In Angel, Illyria reacted along these lines to meeting her priest, Knox: | |
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General Beckman from Chuck, played by the diminutive Bonita Friedericy. For a while she only appears on video conferences with the heroes, and the first time she shows up in person, Chuck blurts out, "Wow, Beckman is tiny!" | |
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Star Trek: Enterprise: A variation in "Bound". Captain Archer is invited to Dinner and a Show (as in scantily clad dancing girls) by an Orion captain Harrad-Sar, who says that for someone wanted by the Klingons and the Orions, he was expecting Archer to have a more robust appetite. | |
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At the beginning of Year Of The Griffin, the protagonists' University tutor, getting all his pupils to self-introduce themselves, expects Olga Gunnarsson to be the Emperor's sister (because of her regal manner), and the Emperor's sister to be the Wizard Derk's daughter (for her "humble, almost harassed look"). Wizard Derk's daughter actually turns out to be a griffin. | |
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Shake it Up: When CeCe and Rocky show up to the audition for Shake It Up, Chicago! in the pilot, they see Gary Wilde, the host of the show, for the first time in person. CeCe remarks that he looks taller on TV. | |
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Chiefs: The racist town council members hire Watts based on his prestigious resume without meeting him. When they find out that he's African-American, they are far from thrilled. | |
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In The Homeward Bounders, Joris constantly talks up his master, Konstam, leading the other characters to picture him as ten feet tall and omni-competent. When he does show up, he's omni-competent but only about five foot six. | |
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In the Honor Harrington novel In Enemy Hands, Thomas Theisman thinks this of Cordelia Ransom. He doesn't say it, of course. | |
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When Peter meets Mozzie for the first time in episode four of White Collar. | |
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The Saga of Hrolf Kraki and Prose Edda relate that Hrolf Kraki of Denmark, the most glorious king of his time, was physically unimpressive. Supposedly he received his epithet when a Swede, Vogg, saw the king for the first time and exclaimed: "I heard say that King Hrolf was the greatest man in the Northlands, but now here sits on the throne a little kraki [a pole ladder], and they call it their king!" (Prose Edda) | |
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Blue Beetle: Jaime Reyes, while saving innocent citizens or rescuing pregnant women and babies, tends to get this from news crews quite a lot. At least it's understandable — he's just your average high schooler with a magical space bug welded to his spine. | |
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Lyrical Nanoha: Apparently, if Einhart and the Grendels are to go by, people who don't personally know Hayate seem to bear the assumption that she is an intimidating and serious sorceress befitting of the power and rank she holds. In reality, she is an adorable Bunny-Ears Lawyer who is one of the nicest people on Mid-Childa. | |
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In Stand Still, Stay Silent, Tuuri had heard that Swedes were quite tall, making her a little disappointed when her new Swedish teammate turns out to be average-sized, and actually a little shorter than her own cousin. | |
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The Flash: Wally West got this from people in Legends when he took on the role after Barry Allen's death. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist: A Running Gag with Edward Elric. His title (the eponymous Fullmetal Alchemist) means that people confuse him with his brother, a suit of Animated Armor. And being called short is his Berserk Button. When May Chang meets Edward for the first time, her dreams are shattered when she learns the Fullmetal Alchemist does not meet her fabrications of the handsome, tall, and princely figure she imagined him being. | |
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Inverted in Batman Begins. Mob Boss Carmine Falcone tells a young Bruce Wayne that he's "taller than he looks in the tabloids." He then makes it clear however that he's not very impressed by Wayne's naive bravado. | |
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In Medium, when Joe first meets Captain Push, his first comment to Allison is that he thought the great Captain Push would be taller. He later admits that he got taller as the night went on. | |
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Darkwing Duck: In "Time and Punishment", Gosalyn travels into the future on Quackerjack's Time Top, and Future!Launchpad has this reaction upon meeting her again after so long. | |
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Mortal Kombat II and Mortal Kombat 3: Big Bad Shao Kahn is played by bodybuilder Brian Glynn. Kahn is known for his massive, imposing stature, and while Glynn is impressively muscular, he is actually kind of short in real life. In the games it made no difference since his sprite was simply scaled up, but when Glynn appears at conventions, more than one fan was, well, expecting someone taller. | |
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Played with in The Shadow. Shiwan Khan gets into Lamont Cranston's hidden inner sanctum and immediately says, "I saw you as taller." This may be either a byproduct of Lamont's "clouding men's minds", or of Shiwan's mental portrait of Ying Ko, Lamont's former self. | |
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In Dragon From Ash, many Nords are completely dismayed when they finally meet the legendary Dragonborn — it's not so much the height (even if he is pretty scrawny and short), but rather the fact that he's a Dark Elf. | |
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In Dawn of War: One line of Imperial Guard chatter that can trigger when they spot an Eldar unit: "Those are Eldar? I thought they'd be taller." | |
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In Everqueen, Horus has that impression when meeting Isha, that with her having cleansed Chtonia on her own. Of course, Isha can appear as "someone taller", but the Emperor might not like it. | |
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How to Rob a Bank: When Jason is released from the vault and sees Simon face-to-face for the first time, his first words are: | |
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True Villains: It's a Running Gag when someone meets Sebastian. He never seems to live up to the tales they've heard, including a story of him being six foot three. Even Sebastian get's in on the act when he meets his future boss and Card-Carrying Villain Xaneth Antaris for the first time in Saga 1. |
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Temps de chien: In the third episode, Antoine mentions to the fishermen the neighbor who comes to Manon's house to defecate instead of using his own toilet. In the next episode, when Stéphane meets the fishermen for the first time and Antoine says he's the neighbor in question, one of the fishermen comments "I thought he was bigger." | |
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Dungeon Keeper Ami: From Getting More Nurses: | |
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Sanae from Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! refuses to acknowledge Shinka as the girl behind "Mori Summer" because the former was expecting the philosopher from Mabinogion, not the jaded high-schooler desperate to purge her past delusions. | |
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Played with in Idiocracy, where President Camacho tells Joe (who is, thanks to society becoming moronic, the smartest man in America at that point) that he "thought [his] head would be bigger." | |
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In The Weaver Option Lelith insults Slaanesh to her face by saying she seems kind of weak for the Doom of the Eldar. | |
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In the same vein, the Cash Cab guy once remarked that he should hire a dwarf version of himself to walk in front of him at all times, so when people came up to the dwarf, they would say, "You look exactly the same size..." | |
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Trigun: In at least the anime version, Milly and Meryl are unable to recognize Vash the Stampede at first because pretty much nothing about him appears anything like the infamously destructive gunslinger they expected. Admittedly, he is tall and his hair is too, but he's far from the tallest person on Gunsmoke (and his hair isn't the biggest, either), and, more importantly, he's a staunchly pacifistic goofball who tends to run around screaming in terror, tripping over his own feet on occasion, flirting with girls and wolfing down doughnuts. At least in the first episode. He Takes a Level in Badass by the end of "Hard Puncher" a few episodes later, or, more accurately, finally reveals what a badass he's actually been all along. The only things known about Vash is that he's tall, has blonde hair, and a red coat. Some other details occasionally pop up, but those are as often wrong as right (such as him using a boomerang) from seeing people mistaken for Vash.The first episode of the anime focuses on several bounty hunters who become suspicious of each other as they try to figure out who the real Vash is. Conversely, in the manga, the cities are festooned with wanted ads featuring his picture, so this isn't an issue. |
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The Dark Lords of Nerima has Gosunkugi finding it a bit jarring when he meets the Sailor Senshi and realizes that not only are they shorter than he is, they're younger, too. | |
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In Chapter 9 of BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant, when Glynda Goodwitch learned that Jubei's protégé, Ragna, would be attending class at Beacon on his recommendation, she was expecting him to be as honorable and noble as he was skilled. While Ragna certainly lived up to her expectations as a powerful warrior, his crass and aggressive personality left her disappointed. | |
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Many people in Attack on Titan are surprised how short and wiry Captain Levi, known as Humanity's Strongest Warrior, is. Considering how fast and precise he needs to be to swing through the air with the 3D Maneuver Gear and slash through the necks of titans, a bigger and bulkier person would have a harder time. | |
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In Freefall, this is the punchline when Florence finally meets Dr. Bowman. It's a punchline because she really was expecting someone taller — namely, a human. | |
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A Possible Encounter for a Phantom: Upon meeting Danny Phantom, Drakken says "I thought you'd be taller...". | |
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Ultimate Wolverine: The agents complain that Gregory Lee looks taller on TV. | |
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The Dresden Files: In Grave Peril, when Harry and the Knight of the Cross Michael meet the dragon Ferrovax at a Red Court ball and Michael — who is at least six feet and not short by any human definition — reveals that he killed the dragon Siriothrax, all Ferrovax deigns to say is "I thought you would be taller." In Small Favor, Harry has been fighting the Billy Goats Gruff, and each successive set of brothers becomes a hell of a lot taller — with the third wave, consisting of a single gruff nicknamed "Tiny" being about the size of a double-decker bus. Then Eldest Gruff shows up while Harry is hiding inside a building, and Harry levels his staff at the roof of the little shack. He hears Eldest thumping along as he approaches, and aims a little higher. Then, Eldest walks in. He's five feet tall. Five-two, tops. Changes: "I took a slow breath and stepped past her, to face the king of the Red Court. He was kinda little." |
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Supernatural: Samuel Campbell has this reaction on meeting the angel Castiel for the first time. Meg tells John that she expected him to be taller when she meets him. |
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Discworld: The Light Fantastic: When Rincewind meets Cohen the Barbarian for the first time, he doesn't expect Cohen to be a senior citizen. Also played with when he meets Cohen's daughter Conina. The whole town is looking for a mysterious master thief who turns out to be an attractive barbarian woman. Rincewind admits that she is different from what he had expected. It seems like we would get an Aesop about gender equality and not judging people based on looks but instead he just says that she's a bit taller than he imagined. Played straight when Rincewind meets Coin the Sourcerer in Sourcery; Armed with naught but a half-brick in a sock, the wizzard goes up Coin's tower and finds out what the readers have known the entire book- that all-powerful, unmatched Sourcerer is just a little boy. Big Fido, mysterious head of the short-lived Dog Guild in Men at Arms, is a toy poodle. Taken to the extreme by Miss Butts, the headmistress of the Quirm College for Young Ladies in Soul Music. Her demeanor is so strict, domineering, and pervasive that most people don't realize she's short even when they meet her in person. |
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Mission: Impossible – Fallout. The White Widow tells Ethan Hunt, who is posing as a notorious villain, that she was expecting a man of his reputation to be uglier. | |
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Total Drama: In the first episode Beth runs up to Chris, the host of the show, and hugs him; after letting go she comments, "Wow, you're much shorter in real life." | |
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Nyaruko: Crawling with Love! has Mahiro, a fan of the Cthulhu Mythos, remark that he expected Nyarlathotep to look like a giant tentacled beast (or any of the other forms described in Cthulhu lore), rather than a cute teen girl with silver hair and green eyes. Nyarko offers to show Mahiro one of those more horrible forms, but says it'll probably drive him insane, so he declines. The gag is repeated in the second season, except that Nyarko's response is to offer to show Mahiro her "original form" — and start undressing, claiming that it's the form she was in when she was born. | |
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World of Warcraft contains a quest which requires you to take an orphan to The High Queen of the dragons. Despite her being about twice as big as the average player, he still comments that he expected her to be somewhat bigger. Obviously. Alexstrasza is about twice as big as your player character... in her human form. Dragons in their true forms in the Warcraft universe are usually much, much bigger. | |
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In Iron Man Pepper, Coulson, and his men enter Sector 16 and find Tony's original suit, mistaking it for Stane's power armor. Pepper remarks, "I thought it'd be bigger". It is! | |
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Golden Sun: When you save Kolima, people are slightly disappointed that they got four teenage adventurers instead of huge, bearded, muscular warriors. Turns into a Brick Joke in Golden Sun: Dark Dawn when Isaac has become just that (Garet only got a mustache). | |
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In the Emberverse, after the average-sized Sam Aylward becomes legendary as "Aylward the Archer", he gets this reaction a lot. | |
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The Light Fantastic: When Rincewind meets Cohen the Barbarian for the first time, he doesn't expect Cohen to be a senior citizen. | |
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In Past Division, when the party meets Thorn, he says the trope almost verbatim. | |
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In Laugh It Up, Fuzzball, the "Aren't you a little short for a Stormtrooper" scene is parodied. | |
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In the Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes episode "World's Tiniest Heroes," Hank Pym (aka Ant-Man) says this to the shrunken Four. | |
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In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom is severely disappointed when a visiting US senator fails to meet his expectations. | |
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In Homestuck, the fandom went ballistic when they realized that Doc Scratch, an omniscient, omnipotent badass, is the size of a puppet. | |
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This moment in Big Top Scooby-Doo!: | |
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Shotgun Shuffle: Danny's first words to his business partner after meeting him in person is that he thought he'd be taller. This is while said partner(who is at least a head shorter than him), is choke holding him in the air. | |
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For The Greater Goof: After Peter Pettigrew's true form is revealed, George comments that he thought Pettigrew would be taller. | |
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Atomic Robo: Charles Fort's response to meeting Nikola Tesla's nuclear-powered atomatic man (aka Atomic Robo) is to remark that he looked taller in the pictures. | |
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In the United States dub of The Smurfs and the Magic Flute, when one of the Smurfs introduces Papa Smurf to Peewit as "the Great Smurf", Peewit jokingly wonders how tall "the greatest Smurf" must be. | |
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There is an abstract version in The Sharing Knife fanfic Envoi. Several generations after the events of the novels; where drones, artificial scanners, and aerial surveys have taken over the searches for emerging Malices; one character is taken aback when another opens a case she had under her jacket to reveal a bone knife with her name burned onto the blade (alongside the 'primed' one still required to put the creature they located down) because of this tropenote (Mallard 'Mal' Bluefield's great grandmother was a particularly sawed-off Farmer, and despite the full compliment of Lakewalker powers/lifespan/ability-to-empower-Sharing-Knives-with-her-own-death she missed out on their noticeably-taller-than-average height in favor of said matriarch's outright runt status). | |
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Carmen Sandiego: When Zack and Ivy finally meet Player in person in "The Himalayan Rescue Caper", they both agree he's shorter in person than he looked in any of their video-chats with him. And then inverted later in the same episode, when he meets with Carmen in person for the first time, and comments that she's taller in real life. | |
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In The Order of the Stick: Redcloak expected someone to try and stop him, but thought the person would be a taller Celestial, not Durkon, a Dwarf. | |
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Near the beginning of Ted, the titular teddy bear becomes a celebrity after coming to life and appears (digitally inserted via special effects) on The Tonight Show. Johnny Carson tells him "I thought you'd be taller," while Ted quips back "I thought you'd be funnier." | |
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Ageless: A Running Gag has Ryou introducing himself, only for people to comment that they expected him to look older. | |
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Corum: Michael Moorcock's Corum is a member of a race called the Vadhagh, who are more advanced culturally than humans but still fairly humanlike. He still finds that Vadhagh in general, and Corum personally in particular, are very Shrouded in Myth and are believed to be as powerful as demigods. King Mannach even tells Corum that "I had expected to meet a being at least nine feet tall!" Also inverted when Corum meets the Sidhe known as Goffanon the Dwarf, who he is expecting to be, well, dwarf-sized, but who turns out to be about eight feet tall. Which makes him a dwarf by Sidhe standards (Goffanon's brother Ilbrec is 16ft tall). |
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Averted and played straight in the Hurog series: When Ward finds out that the badass, who single-handedly killed some bandits, and only succumbed to severe injuries after all the bandits were dead, is a woman, he is completely unfazed - he knows her and has a crush on her. However, when Ward himself is introduced to some people who heard of his prowess in battle, they admit that they expected someone older. | |
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One of the possible comments the Dragonborn can make when first meeting Delphine in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is "I was expecting someone... taller." One of the Companions makes a similar comment when the new Harbinger is announced at the end of that faction's questline. | |
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Collateral: Played straight; When Max, posing as hitman Vincent, meets Vincent's "client" Felix for the first time, the latter one plays greets him with the words "I thought you'd be taller". Then again, he'd probably say the same thing to Vincent (played by Tom Cruise), but still. | |
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In Stitch! The Movie, after Pleakley and Cobra Bubbles meet Dr. Hämsterviel for the first time while he's holding Jumba prisoner, Pleakley has this reaction after having only heard his voice throughout the movie, "He sounded a lot bigger over the phone." | |
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Soul Eater has Excalibur. Sword of kings and legends. So sharp that he can cut through entire dimensions. And he looks like this.◊ How he acts is even worse. | |
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In Red Dwarf, Kryten has this reaction to the planet Earth the first time he sees it. | |
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Inverted in Inglourious Basterds: the "Jew Hunter" was expecting the Basterd known as the "Little Man" to be shorter. | |
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In Assimilation, Jacob feels weirded out when he meets the Justice League because they're much smaller than he always saw them represented. Then he realises they actually are tall, but Jacob himself grew bigger due to his emergency transformation so his appreciation was skewed. | |
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Inverted in S.S.D.D. with Commander Krutz (a very tall and muscular and, as this is a Furry comic, fierce looking dog), everyone that sees him and his bodyguard (much shorter than him) always tries to shake the hand of the bodyguard. | |
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Inverted in Peter Pan. Wendy admits when she first met Peter that he turned out to be a little taller than she expected. | |
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Conker's Bad Fur Day: | |
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Planes: Fire & Rescue: When Lil' Dipper first meets Dusty Crophopper, she claims that Dusty is shorter than she expected. | |
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In Love Worth Waiting For, Elsa's embarrassing first words upon meeting her soulmate Mulan are "You're shorter than I thought you'd be". | |
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Random dialogue from a Commoner Dwarf in the original game includes a line that she thought humans/a Grey Warden (you) would be taller. Her image of it must be rather skewed... | |
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Codex Alera: Referenced in the first book. Amara confronts a famous hero stationed with the legionares. He was taking a bath when she showed up, and decided she didn't matter enough for him to get dressed. When he says who he is, Amara gives him a meaningful look and says, "I thought you'd be... taller." Pwned. | |
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Slayers: Gourry Gabriev says something to this effect in the first episode when he first meets Lina. | |
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Used frequently in Ghost Hunt, when people are surprised that Naru is president of SPR at only 17. This is later subverted when they attempt to disguise Naru's identity; Yasuhara (who is really a year or so older) poses as the president, and the client comments, "Yes, I heard you were very young." | |
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Molly of Denali: In "Fiddle of Nowhere," when Molly initially tries to imagine what Finnegan King looks like, she pictures a man with similar features to her dad, but with longer hair. When she meets King, he has long hair, but he doesn't look at all like Molly imagined. | |
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Captain America: The First Avenger has a lot of fun with this trope. When the short and sickly Steve Rogers shows up for the supersoldier experiment, everyone in the room stops dead in their tracks and falls silent. A senator is holding a ceremony to award Rogers the Medal of Honor, but he's had enough of propaganda stunts and fails to turn up. Instead an aide comes on stage and whispers in the senator's ear, presumably informing him of this fact. In the audience is Stan Lee as a general, who mistakes the aide for Rogers and says he expected him to be taller. Inverted when Steve's childhood friend Bucky sees him for the first time since he became a Super-Soldier. |
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In The Owl House, Amity is less than impressed when she meets the Golden Guard for the first time, as she most likely wasn't expecting him to be a scrawny teenager. Her older siblings have a similar reaction when they meet him several episodes later, with Emira noting that he looks sickly. | |
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In Suikoden II, Hoi's impersonating you, but his disguise falls flat when his "True Rune" (actually a bit of body painting) starts to dissolve. Cue one of the villagers admitting that Hoi's actually a little small to be the leader of the anti-Highwind forces. Now consider that Hoi isn't just larger than you, he's pretty hefty. (And that they mistook you for his accomplice...) No way are they going to realize that the genuine article is the genuine article. | |
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Averted in The X-Files when Reyes meets Mulder properly for the first time (he was somewhat dead the first time she saw him). | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: In Iron Man Pepper, Coulson, and his men enter Sector 16 and find Tony's original suit, mistaking it for Stane's power armor. Pepper remarks, "I thought it'd be bigger". It is! Captain America: The First Avenger has a lot of fun with this trope. When the short and sickly Steve Rogers shows up for the supersoldier experiment, everyone in the room stops dead in their tracks and falls silent. A senator is holding a ceremony to award Rogers the Medal of Honor, but he's had enough of propaganda stunts and fails to turn up. Instead an aide comes on stage and whispers in the senator's ear, presumably informing him of this fact. In the audience is Stan Lee as a general, who mistakes the aide for Rogers and says he expected him to be taller. Inverted when Steve's childhood friend Bucky sees him for the first time since he became a Super-Soldier. |
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In Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening, an imported Warden can get this (somewhat sarcastic) reaction from Nathaniel Howe upon first encountering him in a prison cell. | |
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Ruca Milda of Tales of Innocence is Asras' reincarnation. He's shy and notably scrawny, not what most people expect from the reincarnation of Census Army's general. | |
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Big Finish Doctor Who: In Son of the Dragon, the first words out of a terrified and babbling Peri's mouth on being confronted by Vlad the Impaler, a.k.a. Dracula, are "You're shorter than I thought you'd be". Her follow-up lines do not help the situation. | |
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Bob and George: George and X. | |
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Bokura no Kiseki is a series that revolves around Reincarnation, so this is bound to pop up. Explicitly mentioned with Ooki, a plain, chubby girl who is the reincarnation of a beautiful female knight. She says she could tell that when she told other characters who she was the reincarnation of, they were visibly disappointed. | |
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In Adventures of the Gummi Bears, when Cubbi became the superhero the Crimson Avenger, the rumors get so out of hand that he is thought to be a tall human. This helps keep the existence of the Gummi Bears secret. | |
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In "A Change in Plans", the Dursleys wouldn't allow Harry Potter to use a seatbelt, which resulted in him becoming wheelchair bound. Later on, when Harry and Ron first met, Ron refused to believe he was Harry Potter because he was a cripple. | |
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Farscape Rygel, the deposed Dominar of Hyneria, is a two-foot high muppet so the trope line would not be inappropriate, but a variation is shown when Rygel is the prisoner of Captain Durka. In "I Do, I Think", John Crichton is captured by Lieutenant Braca, minion of the Big Bad Scorpius who has been hunting Crichton since they first met. |
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When villains Draco and Silverthorn meet in The Girl from Tomorrow. | |
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In the Jackie Chan Adventures fanfic Queen of All Oni, this is General Ozeki's reaction to meeting Jackie. | |
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Slice of Life: Here, Pumpkin for Discord, in which he responds: | |
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Gray from Weak Hero is a 5'2" scrawny Bishōnen who can barely manage a pull-up. He's also the dreaded White Mamba who has never lost a single fight (thanks to being a ruthless Combat Pragmatist). Nine times out of ten, when a character realises that Gray and White Mamba are one and the same, their reaction is "Really? That guy?" | |
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Stargate SG-1: Series opening "Children of the Gods": Later, when teenage-clone O'Neill meets adult original O'Neill, he comments "Wow. I'm taller than I thought." In "Ascension", Orlin is a man who once was an ascended being who fell in love with Carter and she eventually had intimate feelings for him as well. Five years later, Orlin comes back in "The Fourth Horseman, Part 1", now in the form of a twelve-year-old boy. Carter has to explain the situation. |
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Kung Fu Hustle. The Beast is a legendary killing machine, locked away in an asylum. When Sing is sent to retrieve him, he's a little surprised to see a balding old man, in flip flops. | |
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In Rock Stars, Katie is a bit shocked at how short Stormer is without her heels. | |
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In One Shot, when Niko visits a house in the lookout point, one of the robots inside asks if they are the "messiah", and that they were expecting someone taller...or at least someone that didn't look like a kitten. | |
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In MultiVersus, Wonder Woman remarks this in one of her intro lines, when she's faced against Rick. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: Aang is supposedly a 112-year-old master of all elements. Thanks to being a Human Popsicle for a hundred years, he's really a 12-year-old kid who likes penguin sledding. This is commented on by Zuko the first time they come face to face: In the sequel series, The Legend of Korra, Grandma Yin assumes the taller and classier Asami to be the Avatar. |
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In Smokey and the Bandit, Sheriff Buford T. Justice is surprised to learn that the police officer he was speaking with over CB radio is a black man, and responds with "You sounded a lot taller on the radio." | |
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Storm Hawks: When Aerrow and Cyclonis first meet in "Age of Heroes", both remark on the other's young age. | |
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Senator Vreenak in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "In the Pale Moonlight", when he meets Sisko. | |
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X-Wing Series: Wedge Antilles and Ysanne Isard had been enemies for years before they finally met. Wedge is an Ace Pilot, so he doesn't need to be big, but... well, he is pretty short. Corran Horn also gets this a lot, being about 5' 4". | |
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Zootopia: Officer Hopps and Nick are captured and taken to Mr. Big. As they wait in Mr. Big's office, his henchmen enter, one of whom is carrying something in his hand, which is revealed to be a chair containing Mr. Big, who is just a shrew. Judy clearly looks like she was expecting the polar bear who brought Mr. Big into the room to be the man himself. | |
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Tortall Universe: In the later series, practically everyone has heard of Alanna the Lioness, King's Champion, and her adventurous exploits. Then they find out she's a lot shorter than even most of the other women she works with. No less badass for it, but it makes for some awkward introductions. | |
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Batman: Happens constantly with Batman. It's not so much that he's not as imposing or impressive as expected, just everyone seems to mention it. Even Tim Drake and Dick Grayson get told this on occasion! It's even funnier after Dick Grayson becomes Batman... he's actually four inches shorter than Bruce Wayne, so for once it's actually accurate. | |
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The Flash (2014): Barry Allen/The Flash finally gets to meet Savitar outside his Powered Armor. Upon seeing that he's a twisted and evil future version of himself, all Barry can say is "You're not so scary without your armor." | |
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In the 3rd episode of Eureka Seven, the crew of the Gekko is disappointed to find out the one man who managed to make Eureka laugh is an ordinary 14 years old boy who doesn't look particularly funny or interesting. | |
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In Opening Dangerous Gates, several characters get underwhelmed when they meet Bleach characters who look like children such as Wonderweiss, Rukia, and Hitsugaya, only to eat their words when they see how tough they are. | |
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In Red River (1995), everyone has heard of 'Yuri Ishtar', the girl that has finally caused Kail to finally take an official concubine, who is said to have been sent by the heavens, an incarnation of the Goddess of Love and Fertilty Ishtar and has helped the Hittite Empire to win battles! And everyone's first reaction upon actually meeting Yuri is 'You?', since she is small, darkhaired and the complete opposite of what was considered true, gorgeous beauty at the time. | |
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The bonus boss of Touhou Shinreibyou ~ Ten Desires is the youkai's trump card against the resurrected saint who served as the Final Boss. The four heroines of the game expected youkai such as the giant skeleton known as a Gashadokuro. Instead, they got Mamizou, a Tanuki. Granted, she's one of the strongest examples of her species and is as powerful as one would expect from a Superboss, but well, as Marisa put it... | |
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In Class of the Titans, Jay was initially scared upon seeing Cronus, the brutal god of time plotting world domination, from a distance. Then he actually met Cronus, and realized he's just a high-school bully writ large, who relies on thugs (albeit supernatural monster thugs) to do his dirty work and loves the sound of his own voice. Hard to respect someone like that, however powerful they are. | |
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In Eragon, two characters, upon meeting Eragon, say, "I was expecting someone more...well, more." | |
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In The Vazula Chronicles, Merletta is the first mermaid from the poor Underwater City of Tilssted to become a trainee at the Center of Culture in generations. As a result, she's Famed In-Story, especially in Tilssted, where many merpeople regard her as a hero. In A Kingdom Threatened, a Tilssted mermaid meets her for the first time and comments, "Scrawnier than I expected." | |
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In Gandhi, Charlie Andrews immediately tells Gandhi (who was actually around 5'3") "I thought you'd be bigger." | |
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Final Fantasy VI has a Shout-Out to Star Wars: if Locke steals an imperial trooper's uniform and goes to rescue Celes in it, she asks "aren't you a little short for an imperial trooper?" | |
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In Faking It, Dipper wonders what Bill really looks like, aware that he's a very powerful mind demon and that he doesn't qualify as an animal (while creatures such as giant centipedes and eldritch abominations do). When he finally sees Bill in his true form, Dipper thinks to himself that he was expecting something less...comprehensible. | |
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Savage Dragon: Dragon, the star of the eponymous series, is superstrong, super-durable, and has arms larger than most people's torso. His teammate turned girlfriend was surprised that, if you discount the fin on his head, he's 5'10'', completely average for an American male. | |
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Rizzoli & Isles: the team investigates the murderer of an avid MMORPG player, and get a list of his contacts, including one with the name "Grunhilde", whose avatar is a gorgeous blonde Viking and whose real name is Kendra Dee. Frost and Korsak are eager to meet with her ... and she turns out to be a mid-60s woman with a romantic streak and a penchant for writing Runic love letters. | |
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Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: The scene where Mmy met Nny. | |
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The Lay of Paul Twister opens this way: he meets with a client, who had gone to hire a renowned magical rogue, and at first didn't believe that the teenager standing before him, who'd been pulling legendary heists for years, could be the great Paul Twister. Turns out he just ages slowly. | |
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A New Hope has the iconic line "Aren't you a little short to be a Stormtrooper?" when Leia first meets Luke. | |
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A New Hope | hasFeature |
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In Death Note, the police are surprised when L turns out to be a scrawny guy in his early twenties. | |
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Kirby: Right Back at Ya!: When the residents of Pop Star learn that a mighty Star Warrior is coming, Tiff pictures a handsome, sword-wielding hero vaguely similar to Roy. Instead, she gets... Kirby. Her imagined expectation literally shatters to pieces. In one episode, Dedede's debts to NightMare Enterprises leads to them flagging Pop Star as a dumping ground for an alien species who frequently dump garbage on the planet surface. The Cappies worry that they'll be exterminated if they retaliate, picturing them as intimidating humanoid aliens. Upon seeing them in person, they're more or less different-colored Cappies who upon learning they were dumping on an inhabited planet, fervently apologise and promise never to do it again, instead opting for a much less messy alternative. Used again when the NightMare Enterprises guy that sells Dedede the monsters is seen and turns out to have the same legless, stumpy feet as everybody else, despite looking as if he'd be humanoid and most likely really tall. |
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In Road House, Patrick Swayze's character — a legendary bouncer — gets this from several characters, who mention that they "thought he'd be bigger" at completely random intervals and as if they were somehow aware that several people have said it to him before and are joking about it now. | |
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Road House (1989) | hasFeature |
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Shovel Knight: While Shovel Knight is a legendary hero in the Valley, after the years of self-imposed exile because of Shield Knight's disappearance, people don't recognize him anymore and scoff at his claim of being him because of how short he is. However, the moment he proves he IS him, they immediately sing his praises. Screw how short he is, he's SHOVEL KNIGHT! | |
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A Pink Panther short had him seeing a "Mr. Big" but he turns out to be a very small man behind a desk. The Panther sneezes and the man winds up in the wastebasket. | |
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Kid Icarus Uprising: The Novelization: In Chapter 20, this is Pit's reaction to the image of the Chaos Kin Viridi shows him: | |
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ReBoot: Rare villainous example in Season 4's Supervirus Daemon. Given what Supervirus Gigabyte looked like and that Daemon was even MORE powerful, few were expecting a sweet, shiny, brightly-colored Jeanne d'Archétype. | |
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Oswald of Knights-Errant is, well... "really tiny" for a man known as the Behemoth. Or, according to him, everyone else is too damn tall. | |
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In Shrek: | |
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Shrek | hasFeature |
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In Hopscotch, Rogue Agent Kendig constantly trolls his boss Myerson, and manages to include this trope despite already knowing how high he isn't. | |
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The Professionals: "The Untouchables". | |
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The Professionals | hasFeature |
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In Mulan II, when Shang finally meets Mushu near the end of the movie, he reacts like this. | |
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In Wakfu season 2 episode 6, a trio of Sadida children comments that they were expecting someone taller about the red-headed warrior — i.e. the resurrected Sadlygrove. | |
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Expecting Someone Taller | |
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Big Fido, mysterious head of the short-lived Dog Guild in Men at Arms, is a toy poodle. | |
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Men at Arms | hasFeature |
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Expecting Someone Taller / int_9acdda28 | type |
Expecting Someone Taller | |
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Watership Down: Happens in reverse order, when the Efrafans assume the Watership warren's chief rabbit must be enormous, if the formidable Bigwig follows his orders. They'd actually met Hazel-rah face to face, but took it for granted that he was just a messenger, as he's only average-sized. Justified because most rabbit chieftains attain their position through physical strength, not cunning and charisma as in Hazel's case. | |
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In Mended's prequel Torn, Delia mentions that Professor Oak is shorter than she expected. | |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire, Prince Oberyn was disappointed (albeit jokingly) that Tyrion (a disfigured dwarf) did not have the spade tail he was rumored to as a child. Similarly, Tyrion uses this line to great (chilling) effect when finding his mistress in bed with another man. | |
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Nightside: Inverted in Agents of Light and Darkness, where a character asks Judas Iscariot what Jesus was really like. "Taller than you'd think" is the reply. | |
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In the Pokémon games, going from a game of the main series (in which sprites of most Pokémon with similar proportions are basically the same size) to one where they appear to scale may confuse most players when confronted with 'mons, especially fully-evolved ones, which appeared much bigger before. | |
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In Willow, the group first encounters Finn Raziel, one of the world's most powerful witches, after she's been transformed into a possum by the Big Bad. The two Brownies name a whole bunch of things they were expecting instead, with taller being just one of them. | |
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Inverted in Fate/Zero, where Waver Velvet was expecting his Servant, Rider (true name Alexander the Great), to be a lot shorter, as he was in reality. It's handwaved as historiographical garbling of the fact that he was short in comparison to his archrival, Darius III, who in the Fate franchise was a literal giant. | |
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Expecting Someone Taller / int_a06398d4 | comment |
Vampire Game: The reincarnation of the Vampire Lord Duzell is... a kitten. Ishtar does not know what to think at first. | |
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Expecting Someone Taller / int_a06398d4 | |
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In Spinnerette, Heather a.k.a. Spinnerette is starting her career as a super-heroine and poses for a newspaper photographer. On the next day, she's very annoyed to discover that they actually photoshopped her taller, because a 5'1" heroine apparently doesn't strike fear in the hearts of evildoers. | |
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Inverted in The Dangers in My Heart. Ichikawa's sister Kana saw Yamada (With glasses on) on a video chat with him and expected a pretty, bespectacled Girl Next Door around her brother's size. And not a pretty, stylish Statuesque Stunner taller than grown adults when she sees her in person. | |
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Expecting Someone Taller / int_a3d1b28a | |
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In Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor, Nick Rostu is surprised to find that Luke is Anakin's son; Luke is visibly smaller than Anakin was, about five foot seven to Anakin's pre-suit six foot two. Luke tells him that he takes after his mother. | |
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In Hetalia: Axis Powers, Germany expects Italy to be very sly and powerful as Italy is a descendant of the Roman Empire. Instead, he gets a Lovable Coward hiding in a tomato box, who believes that during wars, the best course of action is to surrender. | |
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In Small Favor, Harry has been fighting the Billy Goats Gruff, and each successive set of brothers becomes a hell of a lot taller — with the third wave, consisting of a single gruff nicknamed "Tiny" being about the size of a double-decker bus. Then Eldest Gruff shows up while Harry is hiding inside a building, and Harry levels his staff at the roof of the little shack. He hears Eldest thumping along as he approaches, and aims a little higher. Then, Eldest walks in. He's five feet tall. Five-two, tops. | |
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Touhou Project: The bonus boss of Touhou Shinreibyou ~ Ten Desires is the youkai's trump card against the resurrected saint who served as the Final Boss. The four heroines of the game expected youkai such as the giant skeleton known as a Gashadokuro. Instead, they got Mamizou, a Tanuki. Granted, she's one of the strongest examples of her species and is as powerful as one would expect from a Superboss, but well, as Marisa put it... Touhou Seirensen ~ Undefined Fantastic Object has Shou with this exchange: |
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This in inverted in The Vow when Lady Amelia (Lianne's mother) meets for the first time Lord Shen (Lianne's potential betrothed). | |
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In True Memoirs of an International Assassin, a writer falsely claims that he's a hitman called The Ghost to sell his action-adventure novel. When he's kidnapped by people wanting him to kill a politician, their leader says, "I expected you to be a bit... (uses hand gestures to indicate someone a lot taller and thinner) ...younger." | |
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Goto in Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords delivers the "I was expecting someone taller" line when he first meets the Jedi Exile. | |
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Expecting Someone Taller / int_a993be1f | |
Expecting Someone Taller / int_a9a8ff11 | type |
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Inverted in My Dress-Up Darling. Marin and Gojo meet Sajuna Inui, a cosplayer of whom Marin is a huge fan. Despite her loli appearance she's actually one year above them, so when Sajuna reveals that she has a younger sister, Marin gushes thinking she must be smaller and cuter than Sajuna. Turns out she's the complete opposite, much taller and more endowed. | |
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In Tales of Arise, upon meeting Alphen, your main player character, Dedyme, the leader of the Dark Wings says that he thought he'd be bigger and that the armor beefs him up a bit. | |
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In The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III, after Rean plays his first opponent at Vantage Masters, a young boy named Zach, he recognizes him as the Ashen Chevalier. Zach then says that he isn't what he expected and his companion Tom comments that he was picturing someone muscular and 3 arges tall. | |
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Patalliro! had this effect on Bancoran when they first met, since the photo Bancoran was given to identify the prince had been touched up to make him look more like a Bishōnen and less like the chibi he actually is. | |
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In Father Ted, when Dougal is reminded of once meeting the Pope, he brushes it off as unimportant. Ted reminds him that the Pope is God's representative on Earth, to which Dougal replies, "You think he'd be taller." | |
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Father Ted | hasFeature |
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In Deathstalker, Owen and Hazel seek out Jack Random, the legendary professional rebel, hero of a thousand campaigns against the Empire, whose name still commands respect and fear in several quarters. When they finally find him, he's a broken, shriveled old man, relying on battle drugs to give him the courage he needs to step back into the rebellion, and even then he's not sure he can do it. Owen and Hazel are less then impressed, and it's even rather nebulous for quite some time if he really is Jack Random, or an Imperial impostor or spy. | |
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Deathstalker | hasFeature |
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In Jade Cocoon 2, after Kahu saves the world from Lilith and the Chosen One of Darkness, he meets Mint, who's surprised by how normal-looking he is, given what he recently achieved. | |
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The Room's Tommy Wiseau. Given his broad shoulders and overall musculature, you'd be surprised to find out he's no more than 5'5". | |
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The Room (2003) | hasFeature |
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In Jesus Christ Superstar, Pilate has this reaction when he first meets Jesus in the song "Pilate and Christ": | |
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JesusChristSuperstar | hasFeature |
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Subverted in Ashes to Ashes: | |
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Ashes to Ashes (2008) | hasFeature |
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Jade Empire: The reason your character can walk around freely in the capital even after killing numerous Mooks is that since none of them survived encountering you, nobody knows what you look like and are thus expecting a ten-foot fire-breathing Scourge of the South. | |
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Long story short from the Danger Mouse episode "The Duel": DM and Penfold have been beamed aboard an alien spacecraft whose occupants address them in a big, booming voice. When DM looks down on the floor, he finds the aliens are no bigger than his big toe. The aliens were planning to attack Earth, but when DM tells them that Earth's population are much bigger than he, the aliens call off their attack. | |
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Game of Thrones: Though he's not tall by any means, Olenna Redwyne expresses disappointment that Tyrion Lannister is a "cowed bookkeeper" (his father has roped him into running the kingdom's finances) instead of the Depraved Dwarf and Deadpan Snarker he's supposed to be. Inverted when Tyrion's father, Lord Tywin, outmaneuvers her during a private political negotiation; Olenna says it's a pleasure to meet a man who finally lives up to his reputation. | |
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Hook: Done retrospectively, and with inverted hero-villain relation: | |
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Hook | hasFeature |
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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel): Set up as a Mythology Gag in the issue that celebrated the 25th anniversary of the original action figure line by reintroducing the original G.I. Joe, Joseph Colton; when he reveals his identity as the original "Joe" to the current team, one of the newer members, Muskrat, comments "I always thought you guys were... bigger", referencing the original 12" toys compared to the modern 3 3/4" figures. | |
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Spider-Man: Inverted in Spider-Men when Miles Morales of Ultimate-verse and Peter Parker of 616 meet: Miles blurts out, during a bout of giddy fanboy babbling, that he was expecting Peter to be shorter. Made especially hilarious by the fact that Miles himself is thirteen and quite frankly tiny. | |
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Bound Destinies Trilogy: Blood and Spirit: When she first sees Link up close, Veress remarks that, for Hylia's Chosen One, he doesn't look that imposing and is Just a Kid. | |
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The Incredible Hulk: The Hulk's son, Skaar, said this when he first met his father on Earth. | |
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In a Winnie the Pooh Christmas special, Pooh fears he has made it impossible for the letter he and his friends wrote for Santa Claus to reach him, so he disguises himself as Santa in an attempt to rectify his mistake and get his friends the presents they wished for. Unlike Santa, Pooh isn't very stealthy; Tigger, Rabbit and Eeyore each notice him coming into their houses, and each comment on how they thought Santa would be taller. Of course, this is justified as Pooh is obviously not the real Santa and, being a teddy bear, can't be more than a foot or so tall. | |
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Reborn! (2004): This tends to happen to Tsuna. He's supposed to be the 10th Generation Vongola Boss (against his will, of course), but he's only 14, and is very scrawny and rather pathetic looking. A lot of people say variations of this phrase, and find it generally hard to believe. Interestingly enough, this phrase isn't explicitly said by Spanner, but implied when he gets Tsuna some prisoner clothes, and remarks in surprise and exasperation that even size small is too big for him. | |
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Fairy Tail's Zeref looks a lot younger and prettier than one would have first assumed. His disposition does not help. | |
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In The Cuphead Show!, Cuphead remarks that King Dice is "way shorter in person" after meeting him for the first time. | |
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In Tales of the Questor, this is a gag when Quentyn visits a newspaper and meets the artist who drew the front page picture of himself, a raccoonmountain of a Questor. Somehow, having the artist go "Oh poop" at seeing how far off she was is hardly flattering. However, Kestrel, Quentyn's friend, tells him that he might as well appreciate the misapprehension as an advantage to thwart his enemies' expectations. | |
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In the Devil May Cry: The Animated Series episode "Once Upon A Time", the demon of the week comments that Dante is a lot smaller and less impressive-looking than he expected for a Son of Sparda. | |
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Played with in SpongeBob SquarePants, when SpongeBob impersonates Squidward as part of Opposite Day. The realtor who's trying to sell Squidward's house does comment that she expected him to be taller, but since Squidward really is quite a bit taller than SpongeBob, her preconception was justified. | |
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Hazbin Hotel: When the residents of the hotel meet Lucifer, the ruler of and most powerful being in Hell, they see that he's actually shorter than most the staff, including his own daughter Charlie. | |
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In the adaptation of Majora's Mask, a band of soldiers hear of this great swordsman who has the Ocarina of Time and are hoping to beat him, but instead get the child Link. Their leader does warn them about appearances, accepts Link and allows him to train with them, whereupon he trumps them all. | |
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In the Bump in the Night episode "Gum Crazy", Mr. Bumpy states that he expected his brain to be taller when he finds that his brain is very small. The brain's diminutive size doesn't stop him from holding up a decent fight against Bumpy, though. | |
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The Punisher: The Punisher gets this from time to time (The current Marvel universe stats list him as 6'1" while the MAX version was 6'6"). Not surprising given the legend that surrounds him as "8 feet tall and bulletproof with a million guns and a giant skull for a head" and the fact that most gangsters who see what he really looks like don't live to talk about it. | |
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An indirect example: In one episode of the Hercules: The Animated Series, the Evil Plan of King Midas involves stealing the winged shoes of Hermes and using them himself. But he has some difficulty putting them on, and wonders how a god can have such small feet... | |
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In God of War (PS4), when first confronting Kratos, the Stranger remarks that he thought Kratos would be taller. Keep in mind that Kratos is already about a head taller than him. It's Foreshadowing that unlike what the scene implies, Baldur doesn't know that Kratos is a Greek God but rather thinks Kratos is a Frost Giant. | |
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In Otto of the Silver Hand, eleven-year-old Otto is kidnapped by Baron Henry's knights and imprisoned in Castle Trutz-Drachen because of a feud between Henry and Otto's father. Henry's eight-year-old daughter Pauline visits Otto in his cell and comments, "I thought that thou wert a great tall fellow at least, and here thou art a little boy no older than Carl Max, the gooseherd." | |
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In the How to Train Your Dragon fan fiction A Thing of Vikings, due to Hiccup's reputation as 'The Hero of Berk', people assume he is some large Viking warrior with bulging muscles and not someone short and slender. Inverted with Hiccup's father Stoick when people meet Hiccup first like Viggo and his crew. | |
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In Inazuma Eleven, Fubuki has quite a reputation as a talented athlete, so everybody expected him to be a tall and strong guy. Much to their surprise, he turns out to be the average-sized teen they ran into earlier. Apparently, he gets that a lot. | |
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In RWBY: Scars, Bruce mentions this to Blake after helping Weiss find her after Blake runs away: | |
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Doctor Who: In multi-Doctor episodes, the earlier Doctors tend to be unimpressed with their "replacements": In "The Three Doctors", the First Doctor calls Two and Three "A dandy and a clown" (not necessarily in that order). In "The Day of the Doctor", the War Doctor initially thinks Ten and Eleven are his future companions because of their youth: In "Twice Upon a Time", the First Doctor struggles to accept that Twelve is a future incarnation, ironically for the opposite reason as in the previous example: he looks too old. In "The Seeds of Doom", the scientists who discover the Krynoid pod expect the UNIT specialist to be some old crank who's been dug out of retirement. When Tom Baker turns up... |
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AdventureQuest Worlds uses this trope and lampshades it at the same time in the conclusion of the Vordred storyline, where upon meeting Artix he remarks. 'I always thought you'd be taller...and have a deeper voice.' To which Artix responds 'Yeah I get that a lot.'. This gets repeated when Gravelyn meets Artix for the first time in her ending to the Doomwood saga. | |
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Braveheart: After introducing himself to an army, William Wallace gets heckled by a soldier who says he'd heard that the real Wallace is seven feet tall. Wallace counters sarcastically, "Yes, I've heard. Kills men by the hundreds. And if he were here, he'd consume the English with fireballs from his eyes, and bolts of lightning from his arse." The real Wallace is traditionally thought to be a giant of a man particularly for his time period, approaching seven feet tall, while actor Mel Gibson is of average height. This sequence explains the disparity away as Wallace being Shrouded in Myth. | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Akira Himekawa): In the adaptation of Majora's Mask, a band of soldiers hear of this great swordsman who has the Ocarina of Time and are hoping to beat him, but instead get the child Link. Their leader does warn them about appearances, accepts Link and allows him to train with them, whereupon he trumps them all. In The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords (2004), the bandit Jago is shocked that the “Left-Handed Hero� who defeated him and his men is a young teenager. |
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Child of the Storm: Referenced and Played for Laughs. In the sequel Ghosts of the Past, you get this snark gem of Harry's cousin Joshua a.k.a. Jesus — everything about whom is medium, average, ordinary, or downplayed; except height (he's short even for the time he's from) — commenting on Renaissance paintings of himself: |
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In Flashman and the Redskins, Flashy is saved from death at the hands of the Apache by none other than Kit Carson. Carson takes it upon himself to take care of Flashy, travel with him, etc. At one point they're somewhere public when a man comes barging in; he had heard that the great Kit Carson was around and wanted to shake his hand. The small, mild, diffident Carson steps up, while the tall, stalwart Flashy remains in the background. The man can't believe Carson is so small—so Carson gives an almost imperceptible nod to Flashy, at which point the man rushes over and shakes Flashy's hand (and sneers at Carson for trying to fool him). Other Mountain Men hanging around can't stop laughing. | |
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Star Wars Rebels: In "Brothers of the Broken Horn", after Ezra introduces himself to Hondo Ohnaka as Lando Calrissian, Hondo remarks: | |
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Usually played straight in the Spyro the Dragon series... but with an inversion/subversion/lampshading in Spyro: A Hero's Tail: | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords (2004), the bandit Jago is shocked that the “Left-Handed Hero� who defeated him and his men is a young teenager. | |
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Strange Magic has Marianne saying that she was expecting... more in a flirty manner from the Bog King during a sword duel. | |
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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword When Arthur encounters the Mage he says, "Never met one of you in the flesh. I thought you'd be taller...and have a beard." After having been given Excalibur to look at, Blue says it's smaller than he thought it would be. |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh! the last arc focuses on the heroes going into the past to recover the Pharaoh's memories. A new character named Bobasa helps them, and in the dub when he meets Atem he remarks the Pharaoh is shorter than he was expecting. People often say this about Yugi in the dub mostly, as it's implied that when possessed by the Pharaoh he looks taller or carries himself that way. | |
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Shiffon Fairchild from Freezing may count. One would expect that the unrivaled "Monster" that reigns supreme over all other Pandoras would not be a cute, goofy and good-natured girl who is far kinder than most of those around her. | |
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Karin-dou 4koma: The Dreaded Seren has the (temporary) form of a cute child when Meguru and Rindou each meet her, taking them quite off-guard. | |
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The White Company: Everyone knows that Sir Nigel Loring is one of the pre-eminent knights of the age. What the stories often conveniently forget to mention is that he is also short, slender, prematurely bald and near-sighted... he gets this a lot. | |
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In Baccano!, a couple of Russo-affiliated thugs are given the task of hunting down a man who managed to single-handedly destroy and rob eighteen of their speakeasies in a single night. And just who is that implacable, One-Man Army of badassery, you might ask? This guy◊. No, not the one with a gun. The guy in the vest who's bawling his eyes out. | |
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Played straight when Rincewind meets Coin the Sourcerer in Sourcery; Armed with naught but a half-brick in a sock, the wizzard goes up Coin's tower and finds out what the readers have known the entire book- that all-powerful, unmatched Sourcerer is just a little boy. | |
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In the Suikoden games, this comes up a couple of times. In Suikoden, some early townspeople will share rumors that Odessa, the leader of La Résistance, is some kind of nine-feet-tall ogre. While Odessa is right there in your party, and completely unnoticed by the townspeople. In Suikoden II, Hoi's impersonating you, but his disguise falls flat when his "True Rune" (actually a bit of body painting) starts to dissolve. Cue one of the villagers admitting that Hoi's actually a little small to be the leader of the anti-Highwind forces. Now consider that Hoi isn't just larger than you, he's pretty hefty. (And that they mistook you for his accomplice...) No way are they going to realize that the genuine article is the genuine article. |
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Inverted in Andromeda, where Dylan Hunt (played by Kevin Sorbo) gets described as: "[...]huge, like a Greek god." | |
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Shoestring: A receptionist who recognizes Eddie in "Utmost Good Faith" says "Funny, you're not as tall as I expected." | |
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In Halo 4, Commander Palmer jokingly says she expected the Master Chief to be taller. The Chief is quite a bit taller than she is (depending on the cutscene, she doesn't even come up to the Chief's shoulder). (Canonically, the Master Chief is only 5 inches taller than she is.) | |
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Power Rangers RPM: Doctor K's reaction to her Rangers' reaction to her Samus Is a Girl reveal. | |
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League of Legends: Poppy is a champion, on an long quest to find the true Hero of Demacia to give him a magic hammer. Being a very responsible and capable girl, she murdered every bandit, beast and monster she encountered as she wandered all across Demacia for centuries. In the story Slayer, she pursues rumors of herself and encounters the statue of herself without realizing it. Of course, the statue portrays her as a seven feet tall man rippling with sharply defined muscles while Poppy is three and a half feet tall Yordle, so it's an understandable mistake. | |
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Pound Puppies (2010): In one episode, the dogs are being visited by a legendary puppy rescuer known only as The General. When The General actually arrives, they're all surprised to find that she's a fluffy pink poodle with a southern drawl whose reputation seems to come from the fact that male dogs fall all over themselves to do what she asks. | |
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In Hercules: The Legendary Journeys the eponymous hero is often confronted with that statement. | |
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Warrior Cats: In The Darkest Hour, Firestar thinks that Scourge's much bigger deputy is the leader of BloodClan, as he wasn't expecting such a small cat to be leader. When Tigerstar meets Scourge for the first time, he even blurts out, "That's Scourge? He's no bigger than an apprentice!" In A Forest Divided, Minnow remarks, "This is Gray Wing? I thought he'd be bigger."'' |
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In the sequel series, The Legend of Korra, Grandma Yin assumes the taller and classier Asami to be the Avatar. | |
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Trumpkin doesn't try to hide his disappointment when he meets the Pevensie siblings in Prince Caspian. Caspian apparently summoned a bunch of children when everyone expected their saviors to be strong, fully-grown warriors... which they were at one time, but Year Inside, Hour Outside is funny that way. | |
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Taken to the extreme by Miss Butts, the headmistress of the Quirm College for Young Ladies in Soul Music. Her demeanor is so strict, domineering, and pervasive that most people don't realize she's short even when they meet her in person. | |
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The Rabbi's Cat: In The Rabbi's Cat 2, when Malka of the Lions says he wants to be admired, his wife tells him he's a legend. Malka replies "So I hear. But every time people see the real thing, they're disappointed." | |
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In Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Rei Kashima is surprised when Sakura tells her the person her big sister Yuu likes (whom Rei's been very curious about) is Hori, noting he's short and not a Bishōnen. | |
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In the Anita Blake series, Anita gets this a lot. Her reaction is usually along the lines of "Yeah, it disappoints me too." | |
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Hiccup gets this in Dragons: Riders of Berk, when Alvin the Treacherous can't believe that the famous "Dragon Conquerer" is "Stoick's little embarrassment" — a scrawny little boy with a fake leg. | |
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In Fate Stay/Night fanfic Nerve Damage, Jordan Lionstone is surprised that his new Servant Archer Napoleon Bonaparte stands at his legendary height instead of his historically-accurate one. The Archer himself is annoyed by this; apparently getting belittled is a sore spot for him. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The first time Buffy met Angel in "Welcome to the Hellmouth" (as opposed to the first time he saw her), he tells her "I thought you'd be taller." — Lampshading the fact that Buffy was played by a different actress in the movie. An indirect version is used in the episode "Prophecy Girl", when Jenny remarks: Xander says this about Count Dracula in "Buffy vs. Dracula". |
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In The World is Still Beautiful there's the 12-year-old Livius. With titles like the Ruler of the World and the Sun King, Nike's sisters obviously expect someone more... impressive, when he finally makes a visit to the Dukedom of Rain. It's no wonder he's not pleased when they mistake Neil for him. | |
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The Riftwar Cycle has a couple: In Prince of the Blood, this is Prince Erland's first reaction upon meeting the Empress of Kesh, as she's a tiny, ordinary-looking elderly woman. Of course, since she's also the most powerful ruler in the world, he doesn't say anything about it. A Crown Imperiled has the leader of the civilized Pantathians say this upon encountering Pug, who they knew mostly through the results of his attempt at exterminating them half a century earlier. Pug also gets this in Magician's End from a leader of the Dark Elves. |
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Changes: "I took a slow breath and stepped past her, to face the king of the Red Court. He was kinda little." | |
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Star Wars Legends: X-Wing Series: Wedge Antilles and Ysanne Isard had been enemies for years before they finally met. Wedge is an Ace Pilot, so he doesn't need to be big, but... well, he is pretty short. Corran Horn also gets this a lot, being about 5' 4". In Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor, Nick Rostu is surprised to find that Luke is Anakin's son; Luke is visibly smaller than Anakin was, about five foot seven to Anakin's pre-suit six foot two. Luke tells him that he takes after his mother. |
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Evangeline A. K. McDowell of Negima! Magister Negi Magi was aged up to be a teen/young adult during her more infamous years as a vampire. People aware of her infamy are puzzled to find out that the woman with a $6,000,000 bounty on her head is a doll-like 10 year old girl. | |
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In the Hong Kong film Duel to the Death, legendary swordsman Ching Wan passes through a city and sees an artist drawing a portrait of what the artist imagines Ching Wan looks like. When Ching Wan tells the artist that the portrait looks nothing like the real thing, (without revealing who he is) the artist responds by going on about all the attributes the portrait has and declares that of course a warrior like Ching Wan would look exactly like the portrait. | |
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Black Cat: This happens occasionally to Train Heartnet — mostly in the manga. Having been the strongest member of Chronos and a legendary and feared assassin, many people are shocked when they find out how young he is. Of course, an extreme example of this occurs when Train gets transformed into a child after getting hit with the Lucifer bullet. Chronos assassins who want to kill him are rather shocked when he claims to be the Black Cat. | |
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Family Guy: A Cutaway Gag depicts the second coming of Jesus, who recognizes this trope. In Laugh It Up, Fuzzball, the "Aren't you a little short for a Stormtrooper" scene is parodied. |
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In Shining Wisdom, Alfred reacts this way upon meeting Mars: | |
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In King of Bandit Jing people are often surprised that the eponymous character is a) the bandit king and b) a rather scrawny looking kid. More so in the anime, for some reason... | |
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In the Aubrey-Maturin series, Stephen goes to see a local spymaster, Major Beck, who has never met him before but has heard of the brilliant intelligence coups Stephen has pulled off. Beck is disappointed to find that Stephen is "meager, shabby, undistinguished", and wearing blue spectacles. Stephen promptly tells him how he personally killed the two dangerous French spies in the area, and hands over all the American Intelligence Chief's personal papers. | |
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Dragon Ball Z: Happens quite a lot due to the nature of a shonen anime about 'training to get stronger'. Goku gives a particularly boastful one when he first sees Frieza's Final Form. He soon comes to regret those words. At the beginning of the Android saga, when Future Trunks has warned the Z Fighters that the Androids in his timeline slaughtered everyone and destroyed the world. When they finally show up, the Z Fighters prove more than a match for them, even though Goku nearly dies of a heart virus. (Although it does turn out that these were not the Androids they were looking for. When they finally do show up, they beat the Z Fighters in short order.) When Vegeta goes through the training of his life to face Cell, he outclasses him so much that he is disappointed about how weak the supposed 'perfect warrior' is. He still has the same attitude once he allows Cell to become perfect, even commenting that Cell 'just got smaller', and wonders why Cell made such a big deal out of becoming perfect. This time, he is sorely mistaken. Vegeta does the same thing again after Majin Buu hatches, after the Supreme Kai described him as an ultimate evil power— Vegeta senses that both he and Goku have higher energy than the newly hatched Buu. Goku knows that he is hiding something, though. |
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Touhou Seirensen ~ Undefined Fantastic Object has Shou with this exchange: | |
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Used a few times in the Baldur's Gate series: In the first game, after finishing Chapter 2, people will start mentioning 20-foot-tall heroes in response to the events of that chapter. In the final chapter, one of the assassins sent after you is an ogre called Larze, who has seen a picture of your face but is otherwise unaware of how you look and act. The player character can use his/hers at that point rather embellished reputation to claim that you're not yourself, since you're not eight feet tall with glowing eyes and a voice that booms as the heavens, causing the ogre to leave to get a better look at the picture. Done twice in the second game. After starting the Mage Stronghold sidequest, the wizard who teleports in to meet you says that he "thought you'd be taller." Also, when talking to the not-quite leader of the Shadow Thieves guild, he'll say that he " was expecting someone... grander" in response to what he's heard about the PC. CHARNAME can even comment on the fact that he's fairly pleasant for someone with the name "Bloodscalp". There's no option to act offended though, even if you're playing as a halfling. |
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In Son of Batman, the first thing Damian says to Batman when they're introduced to each other is "Don't look so stunned, father. I thought you'd be taller." Then when he's shown the Batcave, he says it's smaller than he expected. | |
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A Few Good Men: A variation is inverted and then played straight. Earlier in the film, Kaffee makes fun of Downey's aunt Ginny (as Downey is from somewhere rural and is not that bright, Kaffee assumes Aunt Ginny is some kind of hillbilly). When the trial begins, he finally meets Aunt Ginny... and is surprised to find she's an attractive, intelligent woman who isn't all that impressed with him. | |
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At the start of Invisible Sun Professor Utonium is preparing for a visit by the reclusive scientist Dexter. No one knew that Dexter is the same age as the Powerpuff Girls (and a good sum shorter than them). Buttercup initially slams the door in Dexter's face, mistaking him for a prankster. | |
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When Shuji from Durarara!! set out to interview the most fearsome man in Ikebukuro, he was expecting to find a large, over-muscled monster of a man covered in scars and tattoos. What he got was Shizuo, a slim, quiet young man who insisted that he hated violence. Of course, nobody told Shuji that Shizuo had both a Hair-Trigger Temper and Super-Strength, and thus Shuji found himself tossed around like a baseball after asking exactly one too many questions. Ironically, Shuji notes that the only thing that did match his mental image of Shizuo was that he was just about as tall as he expected. | |
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Rurouni Kenshin gets "he's shorter than I thought" when living in Tokyo. | |
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The Star Trek: Voyager episode "Live Fast and Prosper" features a group of aliens who masquerade as members of the Voyager crew. Janeway gets this line from the woman, Dala, who is impersonating her: | |
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Revenge of the Sith: General Grievous and Anakin Skywalker use this as a back-and-forth insult; Grievous remarks that he Anakin to be older based on his renown, while Anakin quips that Greious is shorter than he expected. Anakin's comeback comes across as slightly bizarre, as even when hunched over Grievous completely towers over him, but then again Anakin is only using it to piss him off.note The line itself provides a minor amount of creative writing in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, where the two are often on the same ship or in dogfights but never meet face-to-face, in order to facilitate this exchange. | |
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In The Excavation of Hob's Barrow, Thomasina finds out that James, a charming young landscape painter she has met and flirted with a couple of times while wandering the countryside, just so happens to also be the enigmatic Lord Panswyck, who she has heard mentioned in passing several times. Upon discovering this, Thomasina begins saying the trope name, but James finishes the sentence for her. | |
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In the Belisarius Series, this is Valentinian's first impression of Raghunath Rao, one of India's greatest warriors: "The most ordinary looking fellow he had ever seen! Shortish...getting a little long in the tooth...well-built—no fat on those muscles—but he's no Hercules like Eon." Then he sees Rao move (casually jumping down a ten-foot drop), and is reminded why Rao is nicknamed "The Panther of Majarashtra". | |
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The Batman: In the episode "Riddled", this is the Riddler's initial reaction when he meets Detective Yin as the one who "solved" his riddle in the episode's opening. This is justified later, as he had set up the whole thing specifically for Batman. This is how Joker reacts when he meets Batgirl for the first time in the episode "Brawn". The fact that he is several times her size at the moment, thanks to using Bane's Venom apparatus on himself, isn't helping. |
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From Calvin and Hobbes III: Double Trouble: | |
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Inverted in Merlin (2008). Grettir, a dwarf, says that Arthur isn't as short as he expected. | |
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Invoked in Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian. A dwarf realises that he's only seconds away from being murdered by Opal, so he decides to go out with flair by making his last words an insult. "I always thought you'd be taller. Plus your hips are wobbly." | |
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The Rescuers are a pair of mice trying to rescue a human child from a kidnapper, so it's not surprising that this is Penny's reaction when they arrive: | |
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In Ranger's Apprentice, everyone who meets Halt (who's a little over five feet tall), and later Will, is surprised that they're so short, having envisioned a huge, glorious hero. | |
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Burn Notice: In one episode, Michael goes to trade information with a Libyan spy. Mike's name is apparently pretty well known in the Middle East's intelligence community, prompting this line: In the pilot, a Russian man admits that he (and the rest of the Russian intelligence community) thought that Michael Westen was a code name for a whole team of operatives. "Nope, just me". |
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In The Neverending Story, when Atreyu is called for his quest, the centaur comments that he didn't call for Atreyu the child, he called for Atreyu the warrior. Atreyu explains that they are one and the same. | |
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Alternate Tail Series: Inverted in the Edolas arc, where the heroes are shock to see that Edolas Levy, rather than being short and petite like Earthland Levy, is six-feet tall... and also a guy. Played straight when he meets his Earthland self, as while he was already told she was a girl, he expected her to have a bigger chest and says so to her face, much to her frustration. | |
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In the Disney animated holiday special, Mickey's Christmas Carol, the Ghost of Christmas Past is played by Jiminy Cricket. When he introduces himself to a bemused Uncle Scrooge, Scrooge replies, "Ohh. I thought you'd be taller." (Making this even funnier, the Ghost of Christmas Present is a giant, specifically Willie the Giant from Fun and Fancy Free.) | |
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Star Wars: Rebel Assault II, after Dressing as the Enemy: | |
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In Star Trek: Nemesis, Captain Picard meets his own Romulan-grown clone, who admits that he expected his progenitor to be a little taller. | |
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The Witches: The narrator wonders why all the witches of England are gazing at a tiny young lady, with a mixture of awe, reverence and fear. She is the last person he would have expected to be the Grand High Witch, until she literally unmasks herself. | |
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In Full Metal Panic!, this happens to S�suke during one of his missions where he had to work with another group of soldiers to kill Gauron. When they first see him, many of them ask why there's a kid here. They find it extremely hard to believe that he's the one assigned to assist them, and find it an insult that Mithril would send a "child" to help. | |
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About a Boy: When Will hears his doorbell ring, he opens the door expecting a salesman, and finds he is looking at empty space, because his visitor (Marcus) is quite a bit shorter than the average hawker. | |
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The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong has Shen Yuan picturing the legendary Bai Zhan Peak's War God as one appropriately muscle-bound, intimidating warrior. He's utterly stunned when he meets Liu Qingge, who has girlish, dainty Pretty Boy looks "like a beautiful woman's". It can be explained by a very Strong Family Resemblance with his sister Mingyan. | |
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An odd example happens in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Haven". Troi's fiancé (it's an Arranged Marriage) was clearly expecting her to look differently when he first sees her. Later, the explanation makes things clear; he has been getting telepathic messages from a woman and, because Troi is telepathic, he had assumed they were from her. They were actually from someone else entirely. | |
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