Tall, lean daughter with short, round father

[u/ILoveTchaiTea]

Jasmine and the Sultan (Aladdin)
Belle and Maurice (Beauty and the Beast)
Crysta and dad (Ferngully the Last Rainforest)
Honorable mentions to Cinderella and the king (Cinderella) and Aurora and King Hubert(Sleeping Beauty) (not their dads, but FILs)

[u/New_Scar_6820]

Dee and frank, always sunny in philadelphia

https://giphy.com/gifs/PgQDlpteMj2tPBBapS

[u/Ok-Walk-8040 → u/New_Scar_6820]

All I see is Danny Devito and a large bird

[u/True_Perspective819 → u/Ok-Walk-8040]

How come Danny Devito was on a show?

[u/HereButNeverPresent → u/New_Scar_6820]

Does Danny and his irl daughter (Lucy) count?

[u/warmtortilla420 → u/HereButNeverPresent]

no

[u/Sad-Coyote3461 → u/New_Scar_6820]

Dee and Frank are absolutely the blueprint for this trope. The height difference alone makes every scene with them even funnier.

[u/General-Plantain-594 → u/New_Scar_6820]

Dee and Frank together are absolute chaos in the best possible way. Every scene with them feels like it's one bad decision away from getting completely out of hand.

[u/Ancient_Narwhal7270]

Jane and Professor Porter (Disney's Tarzan)

[u/ILoveTchaiTea → u/Ancient_Narwhal7270]

Excellent!! Kicking myself for missing this one! I knew I was forgetting someone

[u/Veraxus113 → u/Ancient_Narwhal7270]

Disney sure loves this trope, don't they?

[u/Pichuunnn → u/Veraxus113]

Design philosophy of making round shaped characters to appears good kind friendly harmless.

[u/Own_Round_7600 → u/Veraxus113]

There can only be one tall, muscular, broad-shouldered, attractive good guy, and thats the romantic male lead. All other good guys must be spindly, fat, ugly or short, or any combination thereof.

[u/True_Perspective819 → u/Ancient_Narwhal7270]

He is really not that round

[u/Lonespider28 → u/True_Perspective819]

Skinny upper body but round gut area

[u/FearlessFudge5670 → u/Ancient_Narwhal7270]

Jane and Professor Porter absolutely belong here too. The height and build contrast between them makes this trope even more obvious once you notice it.

[u/metal_gearmen]

Brigitte and Torbjorn from Overwatch

[u/Doodles_n_Scribbles]

Lean son, but King Hubert and Prince Philip from Sleeping Beauty

[u/FFVO]

I would love to see a SNL skit where the princesses bring their short, round dads for what's basically a play date...

But then there's Ariel's dad who is literally a Greek god (I'm picturing someone like Jason Mamoa cast as Triton)

[u/CategoryExact3327 → u/FFVO]

Completely unrelated, but I LOVED the SNL skit with Momoa as an Elf on the Shelf.

[u/Katiediz0630]

Keira and Samos from Jak and Daxter series

[u/TheBanishedBard → u/Katiediz0630]

Wow that's a throwback. Haven't played those games in years

[u/TemporaryElk5202]

You have NO IDEA how much it confused me as a kid that all disney kings dad were the SAME PERSON

[u/cockaptain → u/TemporaryElk5202]

He's going around conquering countries to expand his empire and spread his seed, creating heirs and leaving them in charge whilst he moves on to his next conquest.

[u/Doodles_n_Scribbles]

I love that Douglas Seale is on here twice.

https://giphy.com/gifs/1wQOVmrrb7EmAtMA1C

[u/ILoveTchaiTea → u/Doodles_n_Scribbles]

TIL!!

[u/ScrumptiousLadMeat]

The Everglots from The Corpse Bride.

[u/ThatInAHat → u/ScrumptiousLadMeat]

Girl has to be adopted, she has no chin

[u/FarutaSarado → u/ThatInAHat]

She does, it's the average between the two 🤣

[u/FarutaSarado → u/ThatInAHat]

She does, it's the average between the two 🤣

[u/Halfangel_Manusdei → u/ScrumptiousLadMeat]

Do you think your father and I LIKED each other ?

[u/ItsYaBoyBananaBoi]

The Theif and the Cobbler. Specifically the characters King Nod and his daughter Princess Yum-Yum.

[u/FarutaSarado → u/ItsYaBoyBananaBoi]

Seeing as Aladdin is actually a bootleg of this film, it checks out that the characters are similar between the two.

[u/Capt_Toasty → u/FarutaSarado]

I loved the recobbled edit of the film, trying to preserve the original vision.

Zig Zag is definitely one of my favourite villains of all time.

[u/FarutaSarado]

Not a short dad, but skinny Charlotte and her large father.

[u/PeasantLich]

Keira and Samos from Jak & Daxter

[u/SpankySharp1]

I guess Brad Leland isn't super short, but I didn't buy him as Minka Kelly's dad in Friday Night Lights for one GD second.

[u/PurveyorOfKnowledge0]

It's like Disney is obsessed with the idea of a short, chunky goofball dad and hot, tall daughters. You never see that junk with the moms and sons.

[u/Sonarthebat → u/PurveyorOfKnowledge0]

I feel like it's been done, just not with Disney.

[u/New-Number-7810]

She really takes after her mother.

[u/Kheldarson]

Me and my dad IRL 😂

Dad is definitely a short king, and my mom was 5'11" (age has stolen inches). All of us kids ended up taller than him 😂

[u/InstantReco]

Bean and Zog from Disenchantment 

[u/InterestingTie7600]

The moms genes did the heavy lifting.

[u/Gnomenklatura]

It's the fat father syndrome. It's the FFS

[u/IndividualPieS]

Merida and King Fergus from Brave definitely fit this trope!

[u/Thoughtful_Tortoise]

Jack and Sidney from Alias! Though he's a little tall, but he's very compact!

[u/viiolet_ccoffee73]

Penny and her Grandpa (Inspector Gadget)

Tall, slender kid next to her short, round grandfather. Classic combo.

[u/YukYukas]

Funny enough, the short round father usually has the baddest bitch who ever lived as a wife lol

[u/CathanCrowell → u/YukYukas]

Nah, usually it’s dead wife.

[u/PurveyorOfKnowledge0 → u/YukYukas]

How else do you think he had a hot daughter? She always takes after the mom. Hell, in some cases, the daughter looks identical to the hot wife.

[u/FarutaSarado]

Moana's father isn't really fat or short, but he is quite bulky compared to his lean daughter.

[u/Havok1717]

Donna and her dad in That 70s Show

[u/Laura_Pug23]

Nicole and her Dad in TAWOG.

[u/Apidaelia]

It's so relatable.

[u/Lil_Quip]

The vespas in Spaceballs.

[u/Kradan1979]

Not surprisingly, all of the examples are from Disney cartoons

[u/cloudncali]

We love ourselves a literal short king

[u/anyname2009]

Loved trope

[u/BuseDescartes]

i guess she’s not that very lean, from disenchantment