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Teens Are Short

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Teens Are Short	comment	This page is currently under TRS discussion Imagine that you are making a show which features teenagers alongside adults. You want to avoid Dawson Casting, so you try to hire actual teens for these roles. But wait, these kids are taller than half the adult cast! Secondary sexual traits may be present as well: the boys might be sporting stubble, and some teenage boys, if genetics are particularly unkind, could even have receding hairlines already. The girls may have had their "summer growth spurt." Half the audience won't even believe that they are real teens. So how do you make them look definitely younger than those middle-aged adults? Let's hire the shortest ones possible! Part of this can be the visual effect of a show shot from a child's or teen's perspective. The adults tower over our protagonists in terms of authority, and the best way to demonstrate that is make them physically much taller (or the child physically much shorter) than they actually are or conceivably would be. This is especially true in animated shows, which can oftentimes have the child reach no higher than the parents' waist despite almost nearing adolescence. Again, it's a visual clue as to the power dynamic. In Real Life, most people are at or near their adult height by 12-16, with girls typically reaching said height towards the earlier end of that range and boys reaching it near the later end. For reference, the average adult height in the U.S. is around 5'9" for men and 5'4" for women. This means a teenager who's on the tall side can tower over their adult costars and ruin the visual effect. Contrast: Dawson Casting. Or compare, as short, baby-faced actors can make a career of playing teenagers throughout their 20's (even if they'd rather not). A Sister Trope to Tiny Schoolboy, in which the boy is short for reasons he can't control and it's rather noticeable among others his age. Pint-Sized Kid is the prepubescent version, and Artistic Age is the opposite of this trope.
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Teens Are Short / int_111cddab	comment	Zigzagged on Melissa & Joey. Lennox is 5'2", roughly the same height as Melissa Joan Hart, who plays her aunt (and, as mentioned above, has previously played the trope straight) but brother Ryder is 6' 1" and towers over the both of them. Seeing him framed next to Aunt Mel on the rare occasions she doesn't wear heels is rather striking.
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Teens Are Short / int_11b7db91	comment	When Adventure Time started, Finn was somewhat short for a 12-year-old. Since then he's aged more or less in real time, but even at 15 he's still a full head shorter than the physically eighteen Princess Bubblegum.
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Teens Are Short / int_1215a23d	comment	Genshin Impact: For the most part, both male and female teenage characters are about a head shorter than the adults. There are some exceptions such as Mona who is seemingly an adult yet no taller than the standard teenager model (not counting her massive hat, of course).
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Teens Are Short / int_14494034	comment	Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): In this Godzilla MonsterVerse fanfiction, Thor's son was notably shorter than his father when he died.
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Teens Are Short / int_15c6ea92	comment	Wonder Woman (1987): Both Vanessa Kapatelis and Cassandra Sandsmark are at least a head shorter than their mothers, and neither of their mothers are very tall women. When both girls are together they seem to be the same height even though Vanessa is a couple of years older and their classmates are likewise portrayed as shorter than any of the adults.
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Teens Are Short / int_15d1f0fd	comment	Despite being one of Marvel's top assassins, X-23 is generally depicted as being very short and slight — at times even smaller than her father/template Wolverine — and it's very common for people who've at least heard of X-23 to be left stunned when they actually see her for the first time. By the time of All-New Wolverine she's likely no older than 19, and her official height is listed at a mere 5'1".note However, Wolverine's official height is 5'3", so it does make sense that X-23 would be on the short side even as an adult. Her own clone, Gabby, is 13, and is actually even shorter.
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Teens Are Short / int_1aa9d9f4	comment	In the 1960s Batman series, and Batman: The Movie, "Boy Wonder" Robin is played by 5'7" Burt Ward, while most adult characters surrounding him are played by much taller actors, such as 6'2" Adam West (Batman), 6'3" Cesar Romero (The Joker), 5'11" Julie Newmar (Catwoman), and 6'6" Alan Napier (Alfred Pennyworth).
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Teens Are Short / int_1adee40d	comment	The World Ends with You: You don't notice it until an age 17+ character is in the same frame as one of the 15-year-old heroes, but damn are those 15-year-olds tiny. Beat initially appears to be quite tall, but you later realize that the entire cast of adults positively towers over him. Even given the fact that the average height of Asian women is 158cm (5'2"), Uzuki and Konishi are also absurdly tall compared to the tallest of Neku's gang. In the ending cinematic we see that real Shiki is much taller than Neku and even rivals Beat in height, but not so much as to obfuscate that adult height is still insurmountable for even the tallest of 15-year-olds.
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Teens Are Short / int_1b2fc1c5	comment	Major Lazer: 18-year-old Penny is noticeably shorter than her father, President Whitewall, and Major Lazer. Playful Hacker Blkmrkt is even shorter than Penny. According to their character bios, Penny is 5’3” and Blkmrkt is 4’8”.
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Teens Are Short / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: Despite being one of Marvel's top assassins, X-23 is generally depicted as being very short and slight — at times even smaller than her father/template Wolverine — and it's very common for people who've at least heard of X-23 to be left stunned when they actually see her for the first time. By the time of All-New Wolverine she's likely no older than 19, and her official height is listed at a mere 5'1".note However, Wolverine's official height is 5'3", so it does make sense that X-23 would be on the short side even as an adult. Her own clone, Gabby, is 13, and is actually even shorter. In All-New X-Men the original five X-Men (Cyclops, Jean Grey, Beast, Iceman, and Angel) being teenagers are drawn much shorter than the adults, even Kitty Pryde. This is quite confusing since in the 60s Jack Kirby drew them as being as tall as Magneto and other characters.
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Teens Are Short / int_1c649ab3	comment	Itsuki Kawasumi and Ren Amaki from The Rising of the Shield Hero are 155 cm at 17 and 160 cm at 16 respectively.
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Teens Are Short / int_1e703d1f	comment	On Gilmore Girls, it varied. Milo Ventimiglia, who played Jess, is 5'8.5", which is actually the average height for young men his age. So part of the trick to convince audiences that he was 17, instead of Milo's true age of 24 at the time, was to dress him in baggier clothing, have lazy posture, and then play his scenes off the larger Luke (Scott Danes) and Dean (Jared Padalecki) who are both over six feet tall. The height and build differences made Milo look younger and scrappier by comparison. Averted with Jared Padalecki who was 19 when he began playing Dean Forrester, but was already 6'4" making him the second-tallest member of the cast behind Edward Hermann (Richard Gilmore) who was 6'5". However, Jared's very slim frame highlighted his youth in comparison to the older men in the cast. Played straight with Lane (5'1") and Paris (5'2"). Rory herself is of relatively average height at 5'5".
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Teens Are Short / int_1ec960a9	comment	Solatorobo seems to want us to believe Beast Men grow a foot between nineteen and twenty. Of the characters with given ages and heights, the teenagers are all 160cm/5'3" or less and the adults are 170cm/5'7" or more. This can't even be justified by breed: Opéra, a Russian blue cat, is taller than her two servants, Gren the kishu inu and Calua the ocelot.
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Teens Are Short / int_1fca96ce	comment	Magic Knight Rayearth has Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu –- all fourteen -– about as tall as each other, and way shorter than the adults they meet in Cephiro (barring the ones who have a childlike appearance). They're at least a head shorter than the women they meet, and barely up to waist-height on the men.
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Teens Are Short / int_21229ca	comment	In Kakikomi Magical Girls, 26-year-old Shiori's high school senior of a sister Mikako is noticeably shorter than her.
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Teens Are Short / int_2126592a	comment	In Girls und Panzer, this is often averted, as Hana is slightly taller than her mother, and Miho, at 16, is about as tall as the family maid, Kikuyo. Interestingly enough, in many shots with adults and children present, one of the two groups will be sitting.
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Teens Are Short / int_217caad	comment	Pointedly averted in Leif & Thorn. Teenage Hyacinth is a full head taller than her uncle.
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Teens Are Short / int_2268ce39	comment	Greek: All of the main cast pledges are shorter than their bigs (Rusty to Cappie, Rebecca to Casey, Calvin to Evan). Averted with Lizzi, who's shorter than most of the ZBZ pledges despite being older than everyone in the sorority.
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Teens Are Short / int_23945975	comment	Disney Animated Canon: Rapunzel in Tangled -– supposed to be 18, and still shorter than all the adults. Flynn Rider is in his early 20s and is visibly a full foot taller; evidently Rapunzel's height has little to do with her age and more just that she's very short. Anna in Frozen –- aged 18 and with one exception she's the shortest person in the main part of the film. Her sister Elsa is 21 and appears to be of average height. Subverted in Frozen II, where Anna's still the shortest despite being in her early 20s. In Big Hero 6, Hiro Hamada is stated to be around 5'0" –- pretty short for a 14-year-old, and further emphasized by the fact that everyone else in the movie is an adult and incredibly tall (except for GoGo and maybe Aunt Cass). It's stated in The Art of Big Hero 6 that for the first bit of the movie, everything is shot above Hiro's eye level so that we are looking down on him. However, after Tadashi's death, the "camera" moves down so that we are seeing everything from Hiro's point of view. His short height is occasionally acknowledged in Big Hero 6: The Series; in particular, when he tries to question Liv Amara at the symposium in "Something Fluffy", he has to move the microphone down. After the moderator Bluff Dunder repeatedly jokes about his height, he angrily replies he just hasn't hit his growth spurt yet.
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Teens Are Short / int_243f5fd3	comment	In Sonic The Hedgehog, the teenage heroes are significantly shorter than the adults Vector the Crocodile and Vanilla the Rabbit. For example, Blaze the Cat is 14 years old and stands at 95cm. Sonic himself is 15 years old with a height of 100cm (Shadow and Silver are the same height as him). Vanilla the Rabbit is 130cm, and the 20-year-old Vector the Crocodile stands at 180cm.
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Teens Are Short / int_2442edf2	comment	Averted in Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn. Simon is 14 at the start of the main plot, and the books repeatedly refer to the fact that he is at least as tall, if not taller than, most of the adult men around him. When he laments being "only a boy", he's reminded by his (hulking) mentor that the world does not see a boy when they look at him, but a tall, broad-shouldered man, and thus he should stop acting like he's still a little boy. It helps that he also starts growing a beard midway through the adventure.
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Teens Are Short / int_26389450	comment	Inverted in Skylanders: Return to the Ruins; 19 year old Crestfeather, despite being the youngest of the Core Five, is easily the tallest of them, being the only one over six feet tall.
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Teens Are Short / int_27b84429	comment	Ellie from The Last of Us is said to be 5'3" in a collectible Firefly note. This is only slightly below average for a girl her age, but she has grown several inches taller in the The Last of Us Part II. Ellie was 14/15 in the first game (19 in the sequel), so she should have stopped growing by that point.
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Teens Are Short / int_2ae929d	comment	In how Jason Earles's Kickin' It role he plays the Adult Child Big Brother Mentor alongside a group of kids, who became taller than him.
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Teens Are Short / int_2b3ba9e	comment	In both Asteroid in Love manga and anime, the mothers are taller than their daughters. Yuuko is taller than Misa, who is taller than Mira, while Shiori is taller than Ao.
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Teens Are Short / int_2b82b95f	comment	In the iCarly/Victorious spinoff Sam & Cat, Miss McCurdy is paired with the even shorter (barely over 5'0") Ariana Grande as Cat.
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Teens Are Short / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	Heroes: Everyone from Claire's schools as shorter than 5'6", with the exception of West. Claire herself is only 5'0.5" (if that). The only characters shorter than Claire are Micah and Molly, simply due to the fact that they're still below the age of puberty. Elle is 24 and the same height as Claire, but tends to wear heels so she looks taller. In the online comics Elle got away with posing as one of Claire's classmates despite being eight years older than the rest of the class.
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Teens Are Short / int_2c15b0d3	comment	A justified example is Cassandra Cain, who was alone and starving between the ages of six and seventeen, so that even at eighteen she is noticeably short, despite her parents being rather tall at 5'8" and 6'2". Ironically, Cass is Older Than They Look as she hasn't been a teenager since about a year after she was introduced and is meant to be about the same age as Jason Todd, but due to her short size, some writers who aren't well-versed in her character write her as being a teenager, and some fans have assumed she's such.
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Teens Are Short / int_2d01f8dc	comment	Beavis and Butt-Head. They're shorter than most of the other Highland High School students (save for Daria) and all of the adult characters in the show.
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Teens Are Short / int_2d311a08	comment	In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) several of the teen characters we meet like Zach the boy who wants to be the fifth ninja turtle, his friend Kaitlyn, and Buffy Shellhammer are so short especially compared to the turtles who are stated to be 15, the three of them could be mistaken for elementary students.
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Teens Are Short / int_2db2ff29	comment	Played For Drama in F is for Family after Kevin sleeps with Vic's girlfriend. She hadn't realized Kevin is only 14, having thought he was just a short adult, and has a massive freakout over having accidentally committed statutory rape.
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Teens Are Short / int_2e9ef429	comment	Barbara Gordon's character bios in the Rocksteady iterations of the Batman: Arkham Series list her height as 5'11", and she looks to be about that size as Batgirl in the Batman: Arkham Knight DLC pack A Matter of Family. In the prequel game Batman: Arkham Origins, she's 5'2" at the age of 15. It's highly unlikely that Barbara grew 9 inches between Origins and A Matter of Family.
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Teens Are Short / int_2fd96163	comment	Michael from Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness is implied to be around 13, or at least no younger than your typical Pokémon protagonist. However, not only is he shorter than most adults in the game, he's also shorter than the link battle models for the characters from the GBA games, who are all about 11.
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Teens Are Short / int_2fee008d	comment	In Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, if you didn't have Word Of God to tell you that Simon is supposed to be 14, you'd swear he was at most ten, which isn't helped by his stare or Tareme Eyes. Apparently he just didn't have a growth spurt until later on, since other teens in the series are more realistic in their heights.
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Teens Are Short / int_32c541e6	comment	Exaggerated in Fullmetal Alchemist. While Edward Elric is short, he's the shortest of all of the teenage characters, which are taller than him. It's eventually revealed that the reason is because Alphonse's body is absorbing nutrients from his own, which is keeping him from growing. After the Final Battle he starts growing a lot taller, to the point where he's taller than Winry. He's also 14 or 15 when the series starts. In the 2003 anime, he never hits a growth spurt and thus is short even in Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shamballa when he is eighteen (where Winry, Alfons, Noah, and even Alphonse at the end dwarf him).
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Teens Are Short / int_3558eaa2	comment	Community: Gillian Jacobs and Alison Brie are the same height (and differ in age by all of 78 days), but Britta (late twenties to early thirties) always wears heels so she is taller than late teens to early twenties Annie.
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Teens Are Short / int_355f9150	comment	Interestingly used in The Witcher (2019), which cast 17-year-old Freya Allan as Princess Cirilla, who was meant to be roughly about 11-13 years old. Despite having a legal adult playing a literal child, they were able to sell it thanks to Allan being 5'3 and absolutely tiny next to her co-starts, alongside wardrobe and makeup to make her look much more baby-faced. In season 2, Ciri's grown to 14-15 and thus Freya's actual looks are not concealed as much, creating the illusion of her maturing, but as she's still a pipsqueak next to the other cast members, she still looks significantly younger even though she's only five years younger than the actress playing her surrogate mother. It's at least amusingly justified by the show also casting 5'5 Gaia Mondadori as her mother Pavetta (who was a teenager when she conceived Ciri), in an episode when Geralt meets her before Ciri was born, so Ciri's short stature seems to be a family trait.
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Teens Are Short / int_35e05f2a	comment	RWBY plays with this. Going by the height chart◊, most of the teenage characters are at reasonable heights for their ages... It's just that many of the adults are extremely tall, making both adults of normal height and teenagers look short. However, the show does denote the difference between younger teens and older teens through height. Ruby is introduced as a 15-year old who is much shorter than most of her peers, who start the show as 17-year olds. Her height is only shared by the 17-year old Nora and Weiss, but Ruby main contrast is with her big sister, Yang. Her height therefore emphasises that she is younger than the rest of the main teenage cast. Weiss is a subversion: although she's around Ruby's height (in heels), despite being two years older, she's much shorter than the other teens and especially her adult sister, Winter, who is in her mid-20s. However, the on-screen introduction of her mother in Volume 7, reveals that Willow is a short adult and barely any taller than Weiss. Despite the show's preference for unusually tall adults, some adults are depicted as being short thereby indicating that some of the short teens — like Weiss — will become short adults. Oscar and Whitley are introduced in Volume 4 when Ruby is 16 and the other teens are 18. They're both much shorter than the adults, including the 18-year old male teens. Oscar is a little bit shorter than Ruby and Weiss while Whitley is a tiny bit taller than Weiss. Although Oscar is confirmed to be 14 years old when introduced, Whitley's age is vaguely implid to be somewhere between Oscar and Weiss's age, making him approximately 15-16 years old. The height contrast between the younger male teens compared with the older male teens is therefore much greater, and played straighter, than for the younger female teens.
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Teens Are Short / int_36065097	comment	The Hunger Games is all over the place with this one. Book Katniss is small and skinny so casting the tall and endowed-of-boobs — and-hips Jennifer Lawrence was against physical type. She was also implicitly aged up due to Lawrence's inability to pass for sixteen, even accounting for Dawson Casting. Her romantic opposite is played by an actor a little younger and definitely on the short side. His interactions with adult cast members fit the trope completely, as his older co-stars stand above his eyeline leaving him looking more childlike. Filling out the rest of the teen cast are mostly actual teen actors, but whether they were cast to fit this trope or not seems to have depended on whether the filmmakers wanted to portray them as little and helpless in the face of the adults' machinations (Rue, Foxface, several unnamed and quickly dispatched victims) or a viable threat to Katniss in the arena (Cato, Thresh, Glimmer, Marvel). The exception to the rule is Clove who is a serious threat, but is also tiny. The filmmakers had to shoot very carefully for the sight of the very small and skinny 14-year-old actress playing Clove attacking and holding down the tall and muscular 21-year-old actress playing Katniss not be laughable. Finally, the filmmakers work hard to dwarf Katniss in the Capitol, placing her besides tall and bulky guards to emphasise her vulnerability.
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Teens Are Short / int_362e79d	comment	Despite having been portrayed as adults for decades, most of the founding Teen Titans members (Dick Grayson/Nightwing, Donna Troy, and Garth/Aqualad/Tempest) will all be a little shorter than their mentors. Wally West and Barry Allen are both six feet tall, and prior to the New 52, Wally was actually an inch taller than Barry. And Roy Harper/Arsenal/Red Arrow is an inch taller than Oliver Queen. Despite this, you'll rarely see an artist draw either Wally or Roy as taller than their mentors, and sometimes Wally will outright be dwarfed by Barry despite this billing.
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Teens Are Short / int_36ab6e57	comment	Black Lightning (2018) has Jennifer Pierce, who despite being a high school upperclassman and the child of two tall parentsnote her mother is 5'8" and her father is 6'5", is only 5'3".
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Teens Are Short / int_36d1798b	comment	In A Goofy Movie, Goofy's son Max goes to high school which means that he's now somewhat older than in Goof Troop. He, PJ and the other kids aren't much taller, though. Max, PJ and Bobby are still shorter than any older characters in An Extremely Goofy Movie when they go to college.
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Teens Are Short / int_38790e1b	comment	The Flamin' Thongs: Narelle is 14, but could pass for being the same age as her 12-year-old brother due to being only slightly taller than him.
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Teens Are Short / int_3ab71c22	comment	Dungeon Keeper Ami: From the first chapter, the Reaper judges that Ami is a teenager because of her short-ness:
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Teens Are Short / int_3b34143f	comment	Averted in Harry Potter — by book six, Harry is stated to be as tall as Narcissa Malfoy, allowing him to look her directly in the eye during a tense scene. Meanwhile, Ron is repeatedly stated to be taller than him.
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Teens Are Short / int_3c1f955d	comment	In Yandere Simulator, the (entirely female except for the headmaster) faculty of Akademi High School tower over all the students, despite most of those students — Yandere-chan included — being old enough to realistically have equalled or surpassed them in height. At this point in their lives, the boys should be taller than the girlsnote (the male base model actually is taller, but the ingame version is scaled down to 94%), but in the game they are the same height as the girls so that the animations sync up properly.
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Teens Are Short / int_41bfe7f2	comment	Kim from The Parkers is significantly shorter than both her parents (Countess Vaughn is 4'11", Mo'Nique is 5'9", Tommy Ford is 6'4"). Lampshaded by an Enfant Terrible in one episode who, when told by Kim that her father was also tall, responded with Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe. In a show where a mother and her 18-year-old daughter go to college together, but the actresses playing them only have a 12 year age difference, the advertisements emphasize that Mo'Nique dwarfs Countess in every way, but especially head size, making Countess look like a preteen by comparison.
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Teens Are Short / int_42d00523	comment	Any issue of Young Justice that had them standing alongside the Justice League. Assuming that Superman and the rest were around 6 feet tall, the YJ kids looked like they were closer to 4 feet. Disconcerting, given that most of the cast was about 16. At one point in his own series Robin (Tim Drake) even lampshades it, grumbling that maybe one day he'll stop looking like he's twelve.
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Teens Are Short / int_44fe781e	comment	The teen characters in Neon Genesis Evangelion are noticeably short for their ages, with Asuka and Touji being 147 cm and Rei being 142 cm. Shinji is especially noteworthy; his father is 6'1"/185 cm (which is extraordinarily tall for a Japanese male), yet Shinji's 14 years old and 144 cm, about the same height as an 8-year-old. One might reasonably expect him to be at least 162-172 cm, but Japanese female adults of average height (160 cm or so) loom over him. Contrast with their Rebuild of Evangelion counterparts, where their heights are more plausiblenote Shinji, Asuka and Kensuke are 157 cm, Touji is 165 cm, and Rei and Hikari are 155 cm
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Teens Are Short / int_455e3038	comment	In King of the Hill, 14-year-old Bobby seems to be 3-and-a-half feet tall compared to his parents. All the kids are like this at first, but soon the others begin to grow to average height (note Joseph's growth spurt), leaving people to wonder if Bobby is a late bloomer. It turns out the animators didn't want to put him through puberty simply because they would have had to cast a man as his voice actor, and they had grown attached to his current actress Pamela Adlon. Not to mention the fact that many people look small in comparison to 6'2 Hank.
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Teens Are Short / int_4617a9f2	comment	Also unintentionally played straight in Married... with Children, as David Faustino was cast as Bud Bundy when he was 13. He reached adulthood over the show's 11-season run...to a height of 5'3, meaning he was still a head shorter than his family on TV.
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Teens Are Short / int_47dfc6f	comment	Mostly averted in Total Drama, where many of the teens are as tall as, if not taller than, the adult host Chris, which is lampshaded by Beth ("wow, you're much shorter in real life!"). The few adults mentioned on the show are usually the same height as the average height teens, with the exception of Chef Hatchet. Some contestants, such as Cody, Beth, Dawn, Cameron, Priya and MK, do play the trope straight.
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Teens Are Short / int_49a87cb3	comment	Yuffie from Final Fantasy VII is 16 years old and is by far the shortest human character in The Team at 5'2. Tifa at 15 years old in the Nibelhiem Flashback is shorter than Sephiroth and Zack but then again Sephiroth towers over most characters.
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Teens Are Short / int_49a88435	comment	In Final Fantasy XII, Vaan and Penelo (both 17) and Ashe (19) are notably shorter than older party members Balthier (22, though he definitely comes across as much older) and Basch (36).
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Teens Are Short / int_49a88442	comment	In Final Fantasy XIV, a number of teenage Elezen NPCs appear, and all are dwarfed by adults of any non-Lalafell race, despite adult Elezen being among the tallest. This is especially notable in Heavensward, where you spend most of the story in the company of one of said teens in an Elezen-dominated city; he stands about waist-high to most adults. This is actually a racial trait: they are noted to undergo a drastic growth spurt to achieve their full height as they near twenty.
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Teens Are Short / int_4b8906a8	comment	In Ever17 Sara, Kid (both of them) and Coco are all 16 or younger, while everyone else is at least 18. Everyone from the younger group is visibly shorter than anyone from the older.
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Teens Are Short / int_4bd693d0	comment	The girls in As Told by Ginger start off as 12-year-olds and age into high schoolers; however, they still don't even reach their mother's noses by the end.
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Teens Are Short / int_4da4f10d	comment	Work It Out Wombats!: Kaya is 16, but as shown in "Gift For a Fish," she's not that much taller than her 6-year-old brother JunJun.
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Teens Are Short / int_4f01368	comment	Static Shock: Static is 15 but only comes up to mid-chest level on his father, Batman, and even his middle-aged adult self from the future. The latter is also much broader in the shoulders, so maybe Virgil's a late bloomer.
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Teens Are Short / int_50bcf7a6	comment	The Homestuck kids are 13, but are about half the height of their adult guardians. However their regular appearances are not supposed to be realistic, and the guardians' appearances are more an effect of how they kids perceive them than actual true appearance. When shown in "Hero Mode", they are significantly taller.
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Teens Are Short / int_50f64209	comment	Despite being 13 and 14 respectively, Eric and Trevor from Sidekick are much shorter than the adults and about the same height as Kitty (11) and Vana (12). Averted with 15-year-old Mandy Struction, who actually is the same height as the adults.
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Teens Are Short / int_547f6bce	comment	Unintentionally done in Family Ties. Michael J. Fox almost didn't get the role of Alex P. Keaton because the producers at NBC didn't think it was realistic that the 5'4" Fox could be the son of 6'3" Michael Gross, who played his father Stephen Keaton.
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Teens Are Short / int_57ad0c07	comment	Resident Evil: Rebecca Chambers is 18 in Resident Evil and standing at 5'3 tall Billy, Chris and Wesker tower over her. Though interesting Jill who was 23 is only two inches taller than Rebecca. Resident Evil 2: Sherry Birkin is 12 years old but she’s so tiny that she only barely comes up to Claire’s waist. She also looks and behaves like she’s 8 years old if not younger. Averted with Steve Burnside from Resident Evil – Code: Veronica who is 17, but conversely the same height as Claire. Played straight with the teenage Moria Burton from Resident Evil: Revelations 2 who is much shorter than Claire or her father Barry.
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Teens Are Short / int_5e91c7a	comment	Rebecca Chambers is 18 in Resident Evil and standing at 5'3 tall Billy, Chris and Wesker tower over her. Though interesting Jill who was 23 is only two inches taller than Rebecca.
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Teens Are Short / int_5e91c7b	comment	Resident Evil 2: Sherry Birkin is 12 years old but she’s so tiny that she only barely comes up to Claire’s waist. She also looks and behaves like she’s 8 years old if not younger.
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Teens Are Short / int_60804f39	comment	GUN×SWORD contains several teens who are notably shorter than the adults around them. Compare Joshua to his older brother Ray for a good example. Joshua's age is never given, but he's probably in his mid to late teens.
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Teens Are Short / int_60f02ddb	comment	American Dad!: Both used and subverted. Steve and Hayley are both towered over by their parents. Same goes for Steve's friends and Hayley's boyfriend/husband Jeff. Other teens depicted in the show are typically depicted as having realistic proportions. For example, Hayley's friends Zooey, Kristen and Danuta are all a few inches taller than her and most Pearl Bailey High School outside of Steve and his friends are at or near the heights of the adults. Steve is only 14 so an argument could be made that he is just a late bloomer (the episode "Roots" more or less confirms him as a late bloomer and most episodes that take place in the future show that Steve as an adult is at least as tall as Francine, who is pretty tall for a woman). Hayley, however, is 19 and should be long done with puberty. If the cover◊ of Volume 6 is anything to go by, Hayley is just barely five feet tall and Steve is about four-and-a-half feet tall.
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Teens Are Short / int_6187cd27	comment	Laney Penn and Kin Kujira on Grojband are both 13 years old, but they are quite small compared to their similarly-aged bandmates Corey and Kon.
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Teens Are Short / int_6274e926	comment	Ashley from Jem is thirteen yet only reaches Jerrica's shoulders and doesn't look much older than the 8-year-old Ba Nee.
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Teens Are Short / int_6444d3d2	comment	Mamma Mia!. While technically not playing a teen (her character is 20) Amanda Seyfried is considerably shorter than Meryl Streep (who plays her mother). She doesn't get it from her dad either — all three potential fathers are over 6 foot.
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Teens Are Short / int_65d9acd2	comment	The Sarah Jane Adventures: Clyde was cast because of Daniel Anthnony's short stature. Averted with Rani with Anjli Mohindra being cast despite being significantly taller than you'd expect a teenager to be. She's easily the tallest member of the main cast. Tommy Knight as Luke Smith is the only one of the teens to be played by an actual teenager and prove that real teens aren't short.
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Teens Are Short / int_664b5d51	comment	Star Trek III: When the three prisoners on the Genesis planet are lined up together, teen Spock is noticeably much shorter than David (Merritt Butrick was 6'1"). He even seems shorter than Saavik, though this is mostly because she was wearing boots with heels and had big hair — the actors were actually the same height otherwise. Stephen Manley, who played Spock at 17, was a good match facially but stood only 5'8", four inches shorter than Spock as an adult (Leonard Nimoy was 6 feet tall). Image here.
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Teens Are Short / int_6744d821	comment	In The Owl House, Luz and her classmates are all quite short despite being around 14. In flashbacks to their time at Hexside, Eda, Raine, and Lilith are also WAY shorter than they are as adults.
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Teens Are Short / int_696b75c2	comment	Averted then used and justified in A Brother's Price. Almost 16-year-old Jerin Whistler is taller than his older sisters. Later he meets Cullen Moorland, who's about the same age and shorter than said sisters, but by the end of the book has had a growth spurt. The Whistlers are all inclined to be tall, and boys stop growing later than girls do.
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Teens Are Short / int_69b0b659	comment	Despite being a spin-off of the trope picture, Sabrina: The Animated Series subverted this with Hilda and Zelda, who are portrayed as teenagers (they are still centuries old, they are under a curse for undisclosed reasons), appear to be the tallest characters in the cast. While Sabrina and her friends are still significantly shorter than the rest of the cast, they are portrayed as much younger than the original show. The show's own spin-off, however, Sabrina's Secret Life, goes back to playing this straight. Hilda and Zelda are back to being adults (presumably their sentence was lightened) and are still taller than Sabrina.
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Teens Are Short / int_69d15cc0	comment	In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Kid Hero Peter Parker (played by 5'7" Tom Holland) is a good bit shorter than the majority of his fellow heroes. Even Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark is made to look several inches taller despite he and Tom being around the same height in real life. Averted with MJ who, at 5'10, is among the tallest of the franchise's female characters. Zig-Zagged with Cassie Lang. Originally played by child actor Abby Ryder Fortson in Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the Wasp, Cassie later received a Plot-Relevant Age-Up to 15 for Avengers: Endgame and was recast with 17-year-old Emma Fuhrmann, who at 5'8 was almost the same height as her father Scott Lang, played by the 5'9 Paul Rudd. In Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, she's played by Kathryn Newton, who is almost a decade older than Cassie, but is also only 5'5 and thus still easily passes for a teenager. To be clear, the recast is probably less an issue with Fuhrmann's height but more the fact Newton better resembles the character (who in the comics is around 5'4-5'5).
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Teens Are Short / int_6a8ce345	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: Straddling the line between this and Not Drawn to Scale, even 15- and 16-year-old boys in Avatar: The Last Airbender find themselves more than half a head shorter than almost all but the oldest and most bent over adults. This is most obvious when Hakoda is onscreen. He's clearly shown to be about average when compared to the other Water Tribe men, and he's more than a head taller than his son (15 or above), daughter (14 or above), and Zuko (16 or above). Most of the cast are a lot taller in the “Old Friends” poster◊ and in their flashback appearances in Legend of Korra than they are in the original show. Aang grew to be quite tall but he was only thirteen when the original show ended so this makes sense for him. He and Zuko ended up about the same height but Zuko grew a lot too even though he was seventeen in the finale. Katara’s also taller despite being fifteen in the finale and having already hit puberty, meaning she shouldn’t have grown all that much. By the present in Korra , Zuko, Toph, and Katara have all shrunk because they’re in their eighties. Sequel Series The Legend of Korra averts it with its more realistic art style, as the teen cast all start at about 16-17 and are about adult height. Korra starts off somewhat shorter than the others, but by the end hits a growth spurt that puts her level with or slightly taller than Bolin.
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Teens Are Short / int_6c1d09b3	comment	Big Town in Fallout 3 is filled with short teenagers that are refugees kicked out of the settlement of Little Lamplight after reaching 16 years old. The vast majority of them are noticeably shorter than the Lone Wanderer. Despite the Wanderer being only 19 him/herself. Though the Lone Wanderer grew up in a Vault and enjoyed regular, nutritionally balanced meals their whole life, a benefit that the Big Town residents didn't recieve, so the height difference may be justified.
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Teens Are Short / int_6d02517d	comment	Amy Davidson managed to play the middle sister in 8 Simple Rules despite being twenty six, and six years older than the onscreen eldest Kayley Cuoco. Her height was a contributing factor.
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Teens Are Short / int_6e2bb40c	comment	My Three Sons: Mike, Robbie and eventually Chip and Ernie, are considerably shorter than their father through their teens and (with Mike and Robbie) even into their twenties. Could be explained by their taking after their mother's family; Mike, Robbie and Chip are about the height of Grandpa Bub.
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Teens Are Short / int_6ea0c1f4	comment	Averted completely in earlier parts e.g the 18-year-old Joseph Joestar stands at 6'5 inches towering over his grandmother, girlfriend, and 50-year-old mother.
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Teens Are Short / int_6f76d71a	comment	The Sims: In The Sims 2 and The Sims 3, Sims at the "teenager" stage of life are shorter than those at the "adult" and "young adult" stage. The Teen stage does include all of puberty, though, and since the Sims don't grow within individual stages, it would have to be somewhere in the middle of the range (so it wouldn't look weird growing from Child or to Young Adult/Adult) and is thus reasonably justified. Averted in The Sims 4, in which teenagers, young adults, adults, and elders are all the same height. This annoyed many players as it made it very difficult to tell teens apart from adult Sims without having your Sim go over and talk to them and seeing if the romance options were available or not. EA eventually alleviated this by adding a Sim's age to the tooltip with their name that appears when you mouse over them.
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Teens Are Short / int_701f0ece	comment	In Berserk Farnese is 19 and is taller than Isidro, Schierke and Isma who are respectively 14, 13 and 15 but look way younger. They are all dwarfed by Guts, though Casca is the same height as Farnese despite Casca being in her 20s. Guts has always averted this, even at 18 to 19 years old in the Golden Age Arc he’s 6 foot and One Head Taller (if not more) than his lover Casca and Griffith who are the same age as him. Pippin was also 19 but way taller than Guts and the rest Band of Hawk. Played straight with Ricket who was tiny among his True Companions in his mid teens and even when he is 19 he still barely comes up to Gut’s chest at 5'5.
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Teens Are Short / int_7026557d	comment	The 15-year-old characters in Cross Heart are all somewhat short. This doesn't get much better after the three year timeskip, however Haru apparently hit a huge growth spurt between age eighteen and age twenty, despite most girls finishing puberty by age sixteen.
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Teens Are Short / int_722ce24d	comment	The Inbetweeners plays around with this. Will is noticeably short, even compared to the rest of the lads, despite Simon Bird being well into his twenties while playing him. Simon and Jay are about average height, while Neil is actually quite tall, but what sells the trope is the fact that Mr. Gilbert is absolutely huge, hammering home the fact that he is the main adult character on the show.
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Teens Are Short / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has two instances of straight use followed by unplanned subversion: Cirroc Lofton was fifteen but could have passed for twelve when he began playing 14-year-old Jake Sisko; by the end of the series, when the character was 19, he was a couple inches taller than Avery Brooks (who played his father). At 6'3, he towered over most of the characters, making scenes where he was shunted off from the front on the justification that he's "just a kid" somewhat odd (they make perfect sense logically, but the cinematic language of him standing half a head taller than the people saying that made it a bit jarring, showing that Tropes Are Not Bad). Five-foot-tall, twenty-something Aron Eisenberg was cast as the teenager Nog specifically so that Nog would look young compared to other Ferengi (who tend, in turn, to be shorter than other humanoids). A much older Nog appears in an alternate timeline, still played by Eisenberg, and is of course the same height.
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Teens Are Short / int_7466d203	comment	In Spring Awakening: The teenage characters are all supposed to be 13 to 15 years old, but in reality it's rarely feasible for actors near that age range to be hired, particularly with the amount of sexual content in the show. To disguise this they make sure the majority are short in comparison to the adult actors. Averted in Hungary; many of the actors playing teen boys were hired due to being tall, lanky, and gawky-looking.
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Teens Are Short / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: The majority of the Link incarnations are shown to be this. Even with his latest known age being 17 1/2, Link is mostly depicted as being no taller than Princess Zelda.
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Teens Are Short / int_74fc7bd1	comment	In Hairspray, the main teen cast members are all significantly shorter than the actors playing their parents — compare Nikki Blonsky (4'10") with Christopher Walken (6'0") and John Travolta (6'1"), Amanda Bynes (5'7") with Allison Janney (6'0"), Elijah Kelley (5'6") with Queen Latifah (5'10"), and Brittany Snow (5'2.5") with Michelle Pfeiffer (5'6" and towering in stilettos). Not to mention Zac Efron with everybody.
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Teens Are Short / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe: As of "Steven's Birthday", Steven is 14 years old and Connie is about 3 months away from being 13. However, they're both half the height of an average adult. It's justified with Steven as he hasn't physically aged since he was 8, but not with Connie. By Steven Universe: The Movie, 16-year-old Steven is significantly taller (according to his medical chart, he's 5'6"), but still about a half-head shorter than his father. The older teenage characters, on the other hand, tend to be about as tall as the adults, with the exception of Sadie, who's barely taller than Steven, but is actually fully grown.
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Teens Are Short / int_7e9d1a6c	comment	Anna in Frozen –- aged 18 and with one exception she's the shortest person in the main part of the film. Her sister Elsa is 21 and appears to be of average height. Subverted in Frozen II, where Anna's still the shortest despite being in her early 20s.
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Teens Are Short / int_87e00d8e	comment	Teen Titans (2003): Subverted (it's not really most teens in the show), especially for Robin (about 15 years) and Beast Boy (approximately 13 to 14 years). Lampshaded by Cyborg in "Divide and Conquer" when he refers to Robin as being "4 feet tall and smelling like cheap hair gel".
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Teens Are Short / int_8aaeda7e	comment	MonsterVerse: Madison Russell, who's supposed to be 12 years old in Godzilla: King of the Monsters and 17 years old in Godzilla vs. Kong, looks shorter than all the adults around her in both appearancesnote The films were shot back-to-back, and the actress Millie Bobby Brown would have been 13-15 during shooting.
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Teens Are Short / int_8ac4e993	comment	Gundam: All the pilots in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing; especially weird in how they otherwise look way older. After War Gundam X does this with Garrod and Tiffa, who are fifteen, making them about two feet shorter than all the adults. This includes Roabea and Witz, who are still under twenty themselves (but don't look it). Carris, who's also fifteenish, is also a shorty. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and its various sequels and spinoffs also has this happen a lot. It's especially noticeable in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, in which the teen characters are still short despite there having been a two year time skip. While most of his teammates in Mobile Fighter G Gundam are in their early 20s, Neo-China's Sai-Saici is sixteen, and looks positively dinky next to the rest of the cast. Most pronounced given he shares a lot of screen time with the massive Argo Gulsky.
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Teens Are Short / int_8b5820ed	comment	Downplayed in Red Dead Redemption. While 16-year-old Jack is still a few inches shorter than his father, he completely towers over his mother. When Jack becomes playable at nineteen, he appears to have grown taller.
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Teens Are Short / int_8cea2648	comment	In Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, one of the characters is Peni Parker (SP//dr), a teenage girl version of Peter Parker (Spider-Man), who is seemingly the size of a school-age child/preteen. Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy are taller than Peni despite being about the same age as her, but adult Peter B. Parker and Noir Spider-Man tower over them.
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Teens Are Short / int_8dba224e	comment	The Cleveland Show: Cleveland Jr. and Roberta are in their teens and are much shorter than Cleveland and Donna.
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Teens Are Short / int_90b916ba	comment	Batman: The Animated Series: Robin (Tim Drake) is supposed to be 13 years old (according to side material), but he is at least a foot and a half shorter than Batman. Even during the flashback in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, Tim should be at least in his late teens by that point, but still looks the same as he did before. Though the middle-aged Tim Drake has grown to a normal adult height, so maybe he was a late bloomer.
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Teens Are Short / int_98744614	comment	In Brave, 16-year-old Merida is shorter than both of her parents. Not surprising with her father, a hulk of a man who's king of the Scots. A little surprising with her mother, though she's only half a head shorter. At least, when her mother's in human form.
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Teens Are Short / int_9a0cb5f4	comment	Bob's Burgers: Tina, despite being 13, is shown barely coming up to her mother's shoulders. Since she is only just a teenager, she may be still early in her pubescent growth spurt. All the teenagers at Wagstaff seem to suffer from this, despite height variations between them. Oddly enough, this is averted in Linda's flashback to her botched high school talent show gig, where she and her band are all portrayed at their current adult heights, while ranging from 14 to 18 years old, respectively.
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Teens Are Short / int_9ac9d448	comment	In Ultimate Spider-Man, Peter Parker is shown to be about the same height as Aunt May, though most other people tower over him. Even his girlfriends Gwen Stacy and Mary Jane Watson are shown to be somewhat taller than him. Hilariously addressed when someone tells Flash Thompson that he thinks Peter Parker may be Spider-Man; Flash dismisses the idea out of hand because "Spider-Man is like, 6 feet tall!"
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Teens Are Short / int_9d94d1d9	comment	The Returned has India Ennenga, who is 5'2", playing Camille and Lena at age 16 in flashbacks as they are twins, but when she appears from the dead 4 years, 20-year-old Lena is played by Sophie Lowe, who is 5'7".
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Teens Are Short / int_9e003c9	comment	Averted with Steve Burnside from Resident Evil – Code: Veronica who is 17, but conversely the same height as Claire.
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Teens Are Short / int_9f89a5f0	comment	Pokémon: Michael from Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness is implied to be around 13, or at least no younger than your typical Pokémon protagonist. However, not only is he shorter than most adults in the game, he's also shorter than the link battle models for the characters from the GBA games, who are all about 11. Tim from Detective Pikachu is implied to be sixteen-to-nineteen but is shorter than adult male characters. He's the same height as the adult female characters.
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Teens Are Short / int_a0500a06	comment	Rugrats: A minor character, Alisa Carmichael (Susie's older sister) is 16, but shown to be a head shorter than her parents.
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Teens Are Short / int_a309c5a5	comment	This is how Jason Earles got away with playing teenage Jackson on Hannah Montana despite being in his late 20s. He's only 5'3.5". Though it eventually led to his little sister played by Miley Cyrus outgrowing him, reaching 5'4" by the end of the series.
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Teens Are Short / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Code Geass: One must assume that in the Code Geass universe, you don't quit growing until you hit 30. Of course, these are Clamp-designed characters, so absurdly lanky is to be expected. It's surprising to see the 17/18-year-old Lelouch, Kallen, and Suzaku compared to the 24-year-old Clovis and the 28-year-old Schneizel, Cornelia, and Jeremiah. Charles (who's a towering 6'8") started out super small, and had kids who barely reached his collarbone. Lelouch is almost 180 cm, which isn't really anything to laugh at. He just looks short compared to other people in the Britannian royal family who are unreasonably large. It seems that they indeed don't stop growing until much later in life.
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Teens Are Short / int_a5efe0e9	comment	Tsukiuta started out as a rather extreme example — despite being only a year younger, the junior pairs were much shorter than the middles and seniors when they first started. However, this is a real time series, and over the 5+ years since then, they've grown. As adults, Rui and Kakeru are still the shortest, but the other juniors, Koi and Iku are now taller than middle members Aoi and Yoru. You, of Procella's middle pair, is taller than seniors Shun and Hajime.
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Teens Are Short / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: Krile in Final Fantasy V is a sprite example. In the NES/SNES Final Fantasies, child characters had sprites that were a pixel shorter and partly faced the camera to make their proportions more childlike. Krile is fourteen, but she's given the same kind of sprite as 7-year-old Rydia was in the previous game. (The supplementary materials also state that she's about 5'1"... though her grandfather is also pretty short at 5'5".) This is played with in Final Fantasy XIV, which has a character of the same name as a Shout-Out, but she's a Lalafell. Yuffie from Final Fantasy VII is 16 years old and is by far the shortest human character in The Team at 5'2. Tifa at 15 years old in the Nibelhiem Flashback is shorter than Sephiroth and Zack but then again Sephiroth towers over most characters. Final Fantasy X has Yuna who's 17 years old and stands at 5'3, and Rikku who's 16 years of old at stands at 5'2, most of the party (especially Kimahri) tower over them. Tidus is 17 like Yuna, but is One Head Taller than her standing at 5'9 and can look the 6 foot Auron in the face averting this trope. In Final Fantasy XII, Vaan and Penelo (both 17) and Ashe (19) are notably shorter than older party members Balthier (22, though he definitely comes across as much older) and Basch (36). In Final Fantasy XIII, Hope is basically the party kid and therefore the shortest at 5'0". It really stands out when he ends up partnered with The Big Guy Snow. In Final Fantasy XIV, a number of teenage Elezen NPCs appear, and all are dwarfed by adults of any non-Lalafell race, despite adult Elezen being among the tallest. This is especially notable in Heavensward, where you spend most of the story in the company of one of said teens in an Elezen-dominated city; he stands about waist-high to most adults. This is actually a racial trait: they are noted to undergo a drastic growth spurt to achieve their full height as they near twenty. In Dissidia Final Fantasy, 16-year-old Zidane — who is not noticeably short in his home game — only comes to chest height, if that, on most of the male heroes and is barely any taller than the preteen aged Onion Knight. The reason for this is because his game had a cartoony, Super-Deformed aesthetic to the character designs, compared to the more realistic (or at least more traditionally "Anime") style used in most other games in the series. Rendering Zidane in a way that gave a proper nod to that style ended up with the him looking notably short.
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Teens Are Short / int_b61bbe0a	comment	The daughters on Modern Family look like homunculi compared to the actors playing their parents. This is especially notable with Haley, who is about 16 when the series begins so in real life should be already as tall as her mom. In reality, the actress playing her is actually now 23 but is petite. At least semi-justified by the fact that the characters were cast as children; while they could have found a taller actress for Haley, they had no idea how tall Ariel Winter (then 11) would be.
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Teens Are Short / int_b7db5642	comment	Stranger Things: Played straight with Nancy and her parents (and somewhat with Barb and her father, as Barb and her mother are tall women but Mr. Holland is a giant of a man) and justified in the case of some of the younger kids as they are growing in real time. Naturally this is defied by Season 3 where both Jonathon and Will are taller than Joyce (played by the petite Winona Ryder) and Cara Buono (Karen Wheeler) has highlighted the difference in height between her and Finn Wolfard (Mike Wheeler).
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Teens Are Short / int_b86b5220	comment	Spartacus: Blood and Sand: Tiberius is noticeably shorter than his elders, Caesar and Crassus, which emphasizes his youth and inexperience.
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Teens Are Short / int_b8b584cf	comment	Averted in Zits, as Jeremy looks like his head might hit the ceiling were it not for his signature slouch. Jeremy would tower over his mother if he weren't constantly slouching. The creative team has stated that they deliberately made Jeremy the same height as his parents to create a symbolic "power struggle".
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Teens Are Short / int_bdae670d	comment	In Yuri!!! on Ice, the under-18 characters, including Yuri Plisetski, Guang-hong, and Kenjiro, are all a head shorter than the older skaters.
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Teens Are Short / int_c02ce5b4	comment	House of the Dragon: Rhaenyra, who's 15, is a short girl. In "The Rogue Prince" she uses a stepstool and the camera lingers on it to remind us of this.
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Teens Are Short / int_c24091cf	comment	How to Train Your Dragon: Not only are the teens shorter than the adults, all but two of them are lanky and noodly. It doesn't help that the adults are all stereotypical gigantic Vikings, even the women.
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Teens Are Short / int_c2463c53	comment	Krile in Final Fantasy V is a sprite example. In the NES/SNES Final Fantasies, child characters had sprites that were a pixel shorter and partly faced the camera to make their proportions more childlike. Krile is fourteen, but she's given the same kind of sprite as 7-year-old Rydia was in the previous game. (The supplementary materials also state that she's about 5'1"... though her grandfather is also pretty short at 5'5".) This is played with in Final Fantasy XIV, which has a character of the same name as a Shout-Out, but she's a Lalafell.
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Teens Are Short / int_c326acd9	comment	In Inazuma Eleven, most of the soccer teams are made of 13 to 15 years old middle school students, but nearly all of them, including the relatively tall ones like Someoka are at least a head shorter than most adults. The average-sized characters are around 4'9 and only reach the chest zone of the adults.
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Teens Are Short / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: According to Lauren Faust, Luna is still a teenager by alicorn standards. This explains why she's so much shorter than her sister Celestia. This, however, is dubiously canon as Luna is treated as an adult in-universe, and the extended universe has the sisters be teens at the same time.
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Teens Are Short / int_c7cba39	comment	In All-New X-Men the original five X-Men (Cyclops, Jean Grey, Beast, Iceman, and Angel) being teenagers are drawn much shorter than the adults, even Kitty Pryde. This is quite confusing since in the 60s Jack Kirby drew them as being as tall as Magneto and other characters.
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Teens Are Short / int_ce50887e	comment	Dragon Ball: At the beginning the 12-year-old Goku doesn't seem to even stand up to (normal height) 16-year-old Bulma's waist. Bulma herself is rather short compared to adults in the series. Krillin was also pretty short as a 13-year-old. It's also noteworthy that when Goku and Krillin were young teenagers, they were still shorter than Bulma and the others, especially Krillin. By the time Dragon Ball Z hits, this trope is averted. Teenaged Future Trunks is taller than his dad and almost as tall as Goku, and the 17-year-old Gohan (seen closer to the end of the series) is one of the taller members of the cast, despite being 5'9. In the Great Saiyaman Saga Videl and Erasa barely reach Gohan’s shoulder while he’s One Head Taller. Though this has some Truth in Television as boys typically have a faster growth rate than girls. Goku's case becomes a Mythology Gag in Jaco the Galactic Patrolman, where being extremely short throughout most of his teens is attributed to his alien biology. Played straight in Dragon Ball Super, where present Trunks and Goten don't appear to have grown since before the Time Skip at the end of Z despite 7 years having passed by the Tournament of Power. In fact, Future Trunks' own history shows more significant growth during his time training with Gohan, than his present day iteration. That said it is established that Saiyans grow very slowly for most of their childhood but have some rather extreme growth spurts to get to their adult height.
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Teens Are Short / int_d78202cf	comment	For Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, casting specifically chose short actors to play the Corbulo cadets with the intention that Master Chief would tower over them in shooting, though this is justified by the Chief being a roughly 7'0" Super Soldier. Ironically enough, the Chief and his fellow Spartans are revealed at the end to be roughly the same age as the cadets, even though John is canonically 6'9" under the armor.
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Teens Are Short / int_d8c2cfe4	comment	Zig-Zagged with Cassie Lang. Originally played by child actor Abby Ryder Fortson in Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the Wasp, Cassie later received a Plot-Relevant Age-Up to 15 for Avengers: Endgame and was recast with 17-year-old Emma Fuhrmann, who at 5'8 was almost the same height as her father Scott Lang, played by the 5'9 Paul Rudd. In Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, she's played by Kathryn Newton, who is almost a decade older than Cassie, but is also only 5'5 and thus still easily passes for a teenager. To be clear, the recast is probably less an issue with Fuhrmann's height but more the fact Newton better resembles the character (who in the comics is around 5'4-5'5).
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Teens Are Short / int_d916aebe	comment	Bobby Lazzarini in USA High was played by the 5'3 James Madio who was in his twenties at the time. Otherwise averted with the rest of the cast, who were much taller — and Lazz's shortness emphasised him as the Butt-Monkey of the group. Earlier in his career Madio was fourteen playing a 10-year-old lost boy in Hook.
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Teens Are Short / int_d9c602eb	comment	Shelley Marsh is 13, but she's about as tall as the average South Park fifth grader.
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Teens Are Short / int_dac34f78	comment	In her 2012 film Gone, Seyfried actually takes advantage of this trope and her height in-universe. Her character is twenty something but while trying to avoid cops looking for her she joins a group of teens and successfully blends in thanks to her lack of height.
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Teens Are Short / int_db10ee3f	comment	Tim from Detective Pikachu is implied to be sixteen-to-nineteen but is shorter than adult male characters. He's the same height as the adult female characters.
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Teens Are Short / int_dc217e32	comment	Averted in Pokémon Reset Bloodlines, where the now 15-year-old Ash is mentioned to be taller than his mother. Other teenage characters in fic follow a mix of averting and playing this straight, though it's rather clearly shown that height is less a matter of teen vs adult but genetic, like in real life.
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Teens Are Short / int_dc4363c5	comment	Godric and Tommy from True Blood. One is really 2,000 years old but was turned into a vampire at a young age, while the other is an actual teenager. Both are played by grown men on the shorter side. Though in Godric's case, actor Allan Hyde isn't too short (5'8), but most of his scenes are opposite the 6'4 Alexander Skarsgård.
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Teens Are Short / int_de90693a	comment	Spider-Gwen: Played with, as Gwen Stacy is 19 during the first volume (due to a time skip, she's 20 in the second volume), but is shown to be exceptionally short. Her exact height is only given as 'approximately' 5'5, but its repeatedly shown to be much shorter than that (a crossover with the above-mentioned All-New Wolverine depicts the two at the same height, implying Gwen is 5'1), especially when standing next to others billed at that height. Her father George is a full foot taller and pretty much all of her (primarily adult) villains tower over her, not unlike Ultimate Spider-Man. It seems to be something specific to this Gwen, as when she meets the Gwen Stacy of Earth-616 (AKA, the main Marvel Universe) when lost in time and space which indirectly leads to splintering the timeline to create the AU Earth-617, its said the two are the same age at this point, but 616!Gwen is a couple inches taller. Averting/inverting this somewhat, Miles Morales is about a year and half younger than Gwen, but is currently billed at 5'8. Typically he's depicted as much shorter than this when around adults, playing it straight, but when him and Gwen meet he's typically drawn a good few inches taller, despite the age gap. This makes some sense as Miles is at the point he'd be reaching his full height, and boys are typically taller than girls, but it does amusingly subvert the trend of height being used to determine youth.
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Teens Are Short / int_df290812	comment	Gossip Girl subverts and lampshades this with Serena's tutor Miss Carr. She's a young teacher on her first job and is mistaken for a student initially. She's quite petite and the 18-year-old Serena and Dan are significantly taller than her.
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Teens Are Short / int_e293455a	comment	With the exception of Cordelia and Dawn (who was played by an actual teenager who went through a growth spurt) all of the teens on Buffy the Vampire Slayer were shorter than most of the adults around them. Buffy and Willow were at least a head shorter than their mothers and also shorter than adult female Jenny Calendar. Xander and Oz were also both shorter than adult Giles. Referenced in the episode "Normal Again" when Buffy used the fact that her younger sister Dawn was taller than her as evidence that she might be living in a fantasy world.
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Teens Are Short / int_e8595ff9	comment	Rapunzel in Tangled -– supposed to be 18, and still shorter than all the adults. Flynn Rider is in his early 20s and is visibly a full foot taller; evidently Rapunzel's height has little to do with her age and more just that she's very short.
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Teens Are Short / int_e936047a	comment	Harold Berman on Hey Arnold! is 13 years old (due to having been Held Back in School) but is only slightly taller than Arnold, who's four years younger than him, and he is dwarfed by the fifth and sixth graders, who are also younger than him. In fact, the fifth and sixth graders have the opposite problem, as most of them look more like highschool students than late elementary students.
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Teens Are Short / int_e9c7b01b	comment	In Dissidia Final Fantasy, 16-year-old Zidane — who is not noticeably short in his home game — only comes to chest height, if that, on most of the male heroes and is barely any taller than the preteen aged Onion Knight. The reason for this is because his game had a cartoony, Super-Deformed aesthetic to the character designs, compared to the more realistic (or at least more traditionally "Anime") style used in most other games in the series. Rendering Zidane in a way that gave a proper nod to that style ended up with the him looking notably short.
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Teens Are Short / int_e9e265b6	comment	Toyed with in Fire Emblem: Awakening and Fire Emblem Fates, which have many teenagers in their casts as part of either their first or second generations. In Awakening, the shortest male character of the whole game is Ricken, a male Child Mage who is positively tiny and unlikely to be older than 15. On the other hand/s, however, his friend Henry is probably in his mid-to-late teens and is much taller... and both are potential fathers to Brady and Yarne (second gen boys that are easily among the tallest guys) and Kjelle (the tallest second gen girl). In Fates, Xander's son Siegbert and Ryoma's son Shiro completely avert the trope by virtue of being almost as tall as their fathers, who also happen to be among the biggest guys in their respective armies. Siegbert is especially noticeable since, as a refined and gentle Princely Young Man, the fans had bet on him playing the present trope straight and then were shocked when he turned out to be as tall as his dad.
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Teens Are Short / int_ea4f62db	comment	In Family Guy, Peter and Lois tower over their kids Meg and Chris, despite them being 16-18 and 14, respectively. Chris's lack of height can at least be justified that he probably hasn't finished growing yet, but Meg would realistically have stopped growing at this point yet is a couple inches shorter than Chris, and nearly a head shorter than her mother.
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Teens Are Short / int_eb6802b4	comment	In Final Fantasy XIII, Hope is basically the party kid and therefore the shortest at 5'0". It really stands out when he ends up partnered with The Big Guy Snow.
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Teens Are Short / int_ebf251ac	comment	Inverted in Deck the Halls, where Danny DeVito (4'10") and Kristin Chenoweth (also 4'10") have teenage daughters played by 5'8" Kelly and Sabrina Aldridge.
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Teens Are Short / int_ec02633a	comment	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt: Though Ciri is no longer a teenager, her character model is still visibly a few inches shorter than Yennefer, her adopted mother. This is mostly noteworthy because in the original books, Ciri was estimated at 15 to be about 5'9, whereas Yen's height has never been specifically stated but she was repeatedly described in narration as being a very short woman, making it an aversion of this trope had it been kept.
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Teens Are Short / int_ec28245c	comment	By the time Dragon Ball Z hits, this trope is averted. Teenaged Future Trunks is taller than his dad and almost as tall as Goku, and the 17-year-old Gohan (seen closer to the end of the series) is one of the taller members of the cast, despite being 5'9.
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Teens Are Short / int_edcc9cce	comment	The main cast of Austin & Ally sets up another aversion — Austin's another 14-year-old six-footer at the start, Dez is about the same height, Ally's barely One Head Shorter and hasn't shown any Huge Schoolgirl issues and Trish isn't that short.
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Teens Are Short / int_ef661e97	comment	In Street Fighter Sakura, Karin, R.Mika, Ibuki, Makoto, Ying, and Yang are a good deal shorter than most the adult World Warriors. Averted with Elena despite being the same age as Ibuki and Makoto, she's 6'0 tall.
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Teens Are Short / int_f0a86c12	comment	How I Met Your Mother: 5'7" Robin's teenage sister is played by 5'1" Lucy Hale.
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Teens Are Short / int_f2da188a	comment	The Batman does this with both Batgirl and Robin (Batgirl avoids this in BTAS due to her being a college student in the DCAU, thus an adult.). While Robin's exact age is unknown, Batgirl is explicitly a high school student, yet she is about two or three feet shorter than Batman. Even in the fifth season when she goes to college, she hasn't gotten any taller.
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Teens Are Short / int_f3966ecb	comment	Inverted somewhat disturbingly in Darkchylde, where the title character looks like she could pass for a Swedish bikini model, despite only being 16. Her clothes often being turned into Modesty Rags doesn't help.
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Teens Are Short / int_f3bc7591	comment	In The Deep, Fonatine is 15 years old and 149 cm (4’10”) tall. Her mother is 170 cm (5’7”) tall.
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Teens Are Short / int_f65a4841	comment	Played straight with the teenage Moria Burton from Resident Evil: Revelations 2 who is much shorter than Claire or her father Barry.
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Teens Are Short / int_f6a54e75	comment	Kingdom Hearts: Sora, Kairi, Roxas, Naminé, and Xion — aged 15 (at least appearance wise in the case of the latter three) as of Dream Drop Distance. They are by far some of the shortest human characters in the entire series, reaching, at times, crotch-level of other characters. It's most apparent in Kingdom Hearts II when Riku, who is merely a year older than Sora and Kairi, reverts back to his human form, and noticeably towers over the both of them. In fact, Tetsuya Nomura stated during a collaborative event celebrating the series' 15th anniversary that Sora's official height is 160cm (or about 5'3"), and that's presumably taking into account his growth spurt between Chain of Memories and II. This is lampshaded however when they first arrive in the Pirates of the Caribbean world, with the Sora, Donald, and Goofy noting that things look really different (as it's rendered in a more realistic style). While Sora and the rest are still human, it's implied they may be a different variety of human than people from other worlds, explaining different appearances and heights. Another, far cuter, lampshade is when Sora tries to point out the DTD password to Ansem's computer in Hollow Bastion, he has to jump to point out the acronyms. Oh, you lovable dork. Roxas and Xion have it worse, since the remaining member of their trio is Axel, who is tall even by adult standards. In a heartwarming moment in III when they are reunited after more than a year of separation, Roxas and Xion cry not so much into Axel's chest as they cry into his stomach, this despite Axel having lowered his head while doing so. Ventus is 16 years old and, as an Identical Stranger to Roxas, has the latter's lack of height as well, not helped that he is mostly paired with Aqua and Terra, both reasonably proportioned young adults. Becomes Hilarious in Hindsight when χ reveals that Ventus actually came from the Age of Fairytales, meaning he must have been hundreds of years old — therefore predating not only Aqua and Terra, but his teachers Eraqus and Xehanort, as well — and yet he still looks and acts as if he is the youngest of them all.
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Teens Are Short / int_f99b4497	comment	Friday Night Funkin': The Boyfriend is 19 years old, with The Girlfriend and Pico implied to be the same; the three are much shorter compared to adult characters like The Girlfriend's parents, and The Boyfriend is only a bit taller than Skid and Pump, two children. Averted with Senpai and the schoolgirls in Week 6, who have normal heights for teenagers.
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Teens Are Short / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation both played it straight and inverted it in the episode Rascals. Because of a technobabble accident involving the transporters, Picard, Guinan, Ro, and Keiko are all de-aged to approximately 10 to 12 years old. Played straight with the child actors playing young Ro, Guinan and Keiko as they all look like children but inverted with young Picard's actor, David Birkin. This is because David had played Picard's nephew Rene in the earlier episode Family when he was about 12 but this is two years later and David had grown to the point that he was taller than most of the adult females and only slightly shorter than most of the males.
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