The Gentle Giant

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I married a small, sensitive, cultured woman so that my kids would be sissies instead of suckers. A strong man with any sensibility has no choice in this world but to be a heel, or a worker. I haven't the heart to be a heel, so I'm a worker. He swears, he drinks and he raps about having sex with women. But he's also a Tailor's apprentice and was the flower man at his best friend Alexander Hamilton and Eliza Schuyler's wedding. But despite being a desperate escaped criminal, the most violent thing he ever does is threaten to fight back against Javert if he tries to prevent him saving Cosette Easier to provoke than most of these examples, though.

It's rare to have a Boisterous Bruiser who fits this trope, but then again, few examples of any trope get distracted from a lecture on serving nature with dignity by the sight of squirrels playing.

The Gentle Giant

He's an archtypal Big Guy albiet one without a Five-Man Band with an insane dedication to his military code of actions and morals , yet he cares like crazy about his allies , he has an almost boyish love of hovercraft racing , and he plays with the orphaned children at the shelter the heroine Jade runs.

The Big Daddies of BioShock are enormously gentle and overprotective of the Little Sisters they've been programmed to safeguard, to the point where the Little Sisters consider them close friends, and the worst they'll do to anything not a direct threat to it or the Little Sister including you as long as you don't attack it or the Sister is either shove it out of the way or try to intimidate it by basically shouting at it. This makes the immensely violent and destructive shift they undergo when the Little Sister is in danger all the more shocking and disconcerting.

The Alpha Series Big Daddies are a downplayed version of this; one Daddy mourned the loss of his Little Sister as noted by Gil Alexander, but overtime they became crazed and started attacking anything and everything they feel is a threat read: A lumbering hulk aside a delicate flower , A gentle leviathan of terrible power.

He's a rather easygoing person with dislike for needless conflicts. Torgue of Borderlands 2: Yhorm the Giant from the third game used to be one, protecting the humans of his kingdom, entrusting them with a sword that was extremely effective against Giants in order to prove his good will, and sacrificing himself to the First Flame in order to stop the Profaned Flame that was destroying his kingdom. Then he is resurrected by the First Flame as a Lord of Cinder, and sees that his original sacrifice caused the total destruction of the very kingdom he swore to protect.

No wonder he actively refuses to sacrifice himself again to the Flame. Victor von Gerdenheim of the Darkstalkers series is a kind-hearted Frankenstein's Monster who loves his "father" and his dead sister Emily. Basically, the only reason he fights is to find a way to revive Emily, which he eventually does by sacrificing his own life.

On the first game he's often seen with birds perching on him, while on the second game he looks after a little boy named Cecil. Doshin the Giant , star of the Gamecube game of the same name. Doshin helps the villagers of the island expand their villages and build new ones , and grows bigger and stronger by absorbing their love for him.

Of course, there's also Jashin , who averts this trope entirely. Chunky Kong of Donkey Kong He has a rather childlike demeanor, and yet he's the biggest and burliest of the playable kongs. A further example of his gentleness is the fact that his musical instrument is the triangle. To some extent, Sten in Dragon Age: While on the outside he's a Stoic Deadpan Snarker he's shown to have a definite soft side, such as a love of baked goods , an appreciation of art and a tendency to pick flowers and play with kittens when no one is looking.

However he's also atoning for the massacre of a family in a fit of rage over his own failure of duty. Golem, Seere's pact-partner in Drakengard , is under this category. Xu Zhu in Dynasty Warriors 5. In his ending he is shown to be tossing a giant boulder away from some land for some farmers. In real life too. The Elder Scrolls The series has a race of Giants who generally play this trope straight. Giants typically keep to themselves and don't interact much with the other races.

As long as they are not provoked by attacking them directly, attacking their mammoth herds, or by entering their camps they generally will not attack. That said, they do provide aversions in the form of Offscreen Villainy. Giants are known to raid farms, steal livestock, and attack settlements. However, outside of a few exceptions with justifications, Giants have not been seen attacking unprovoked in-game. Additionally, there are mentions of Giants attacking and even forming armies in the backstory. The ancient Giant Clan led by Sinmur the Terrible is one such example. Sinmur led an army of hundreds of Giants against the forces of the Atmoran Ysgramor and his Companions.

Both sides suffered massive casualties, but the war ended when Ysgramor personally slew Sinmur. Skyrim provides examples with some NPCs. Being the first game in the series that doesn't simply use the same body model for all members of the same race, some individuals are bigger and more muscular than others.

Farkas, a member of the Companions , is a big Nord with a claymore and can turn into a werewolf , but is quite gentle when not out on a mission. Some of the blacksmiths also qualify, such as Balimund in Riften. This is a logical Truth in Television since blacksmithing requires great patience and provides a hell of an upper-body workout. New Vegas , as one of the tallest humans in the game he states that his mother used to tell him, "You're the biggest and strongest of us, so you mind yourself", and also cites this as the reason behind his tendency towards pacifism and diplomacy.

Easily one of the politest NPCs in game, his method for solving the quest he's in yields the best results in the epilogue. Fallout 3 gives us Uncle Leo, one of two friendly Super Mutants. He's such a friendly guy that if you choose to mug him, he'll give you a set of clothes, and even laments that he can't give you something nicer.

He's simple-minded, doesn't talk much, and can talk to animals. Most significantly with beavers. Apparently Laguna and Kiros understands what he tries to say. Kimahri Ronso from Final Fantasy X. Despite rarely expressing his emotions and being of few words, he is extremely loyal to Yuna, and is more than willing to lay down his life for her.

A tall, strong man with an athletic build, he is very compassionate and loves his fiancee with all his heart.

He likes to consider himself a 'hero' to those in need. Sabin is a Bare-Fisted Monk , and well-muscled enough that Terra initially mistakes him for a bear; yet he's easily one of the most upbeat and forward-thinking characters in the party. Brom is a close-to-earth farmer who is also heavily decked in armor when he's forced to fight, and his daughter Meg is a kindhearted girl who follows in her father's footsteps.

Radiant Dawn The Fire Emblem Tellius series also has Mordecai, a very large and powerful tiger shapeshifter "laguz" who makes friends with squirrels, humans "beorc" , and ostracized Half Human Hybrids with ease. Kellam is an extremely tall Armored Knight who is as sweet as he's big despite being continually forgotten by the rest of the cast and Gregor is a cheerful, good-natured mercenary who's a mixture of The Ahnold , Boisterous Bruiser and Cool Old Guy. Fire Emblem Awakening Benny is a scary-looking Armored Knight with huge in-game Strength and Defense growths, plus a quiet and thoughtful nature.

His son Ignatius is just as big and gentle. Fire Emblem Fates Potemkin in the Guilty Gear series is an example; he also has mild Genius Bruiser leanings, being highly intelligent and rather philosophical, although sometimes rather naive. He's also the Team Dad. Played with in that he's still a killing machine. While Jorge is clearly regarded as the most dangerous and toughest soldier in Noble Team, he is also the most clearly emotionally stable, and shows the most humanity.

Spartan-IIs in general come off as as gentle if rather Stoic giants, as long as you're not Covenant trying to destroy or take over their planets, or Insurrectionists trying to overthrow the UNSC. Zhong the Ox carrier from Jade Empire , an ogre — a member of a normally brutal and territorial race - that ran away from home because he accidentally killed one of his master's oxen. Another example is Chai Ka; a demon that inhabits the body of a little girl.

A huge, burly man in a suit, cape and wrestling mask, armed with two grenade launchers that burn his enemies to the ground, but he's a surprisingly nice, mellow guy under the mask. Aganos of Killer Instinct looks like a typical Rock Monster , but the clue to its nature lies in its name "gentle" in Greek. It is quite polite and peaceful, and was given free will and thinking by the king it served under, but do not mistake it for being soft in battle. Even then, at the end of its victory animation, it will always top the impromptu rock grave it makes for its opponent with a flower including, intentionally or not, its Arch-Enemy Kan-Ra.

Goro Daimon from The King of Fighters. The guy is peaceful by nature, usually fighting only to help out Kyo, Benimaru, and Shingo if they require his aid. He also finds time to immerse himself in nature and teach younglings the secrets of Judo. His warm heart was probably why his very hot wife Jokyojo fell in love with him, and he's a devoted husband and father outside the ring. Zaalbar from Knights of the Old Republic is a painfully shy and quiet fellow, despite being two meters of very intimidating walking fur.

His partner-in-crime refers to him as a "big ol' softie. Unless you get him to do it himself. Shigen of The Last Blade series is extremely large and powerful, and, with his stone abilities , he can partially become an even more powerful Living Statue. Despite his fearsome appearance, he's a dutiful father to his adopted daughter Kotetsu. The Legend of Zelda: Yeto, the mountain-dwelling cook and snowboard enthusiast in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess , is shown to be one of these.

His wife Yeta also fits the bill, when she isn't possessed by the soul-eating powers of a piece of the Mirror of Twilight. Breath of the Wild has Yunobo, who like all Gorons is twice as tall and wide as Link but is a Cowardly Lion who must be actively guided in his and Link's battle against Vah Rudania in contrast to the other Guest Star Party Members who are far more proactive in fighting the Divine Beasts , and Hestu, who has the same gentle and childlike personality as all the other Koroks despite being abnormally large for one.

The Zora also have two characters, Prince Sidon and King Dorephan , who are twice and ten times as big as Link respectively but are two of the nicest characters in the game. Lastly, there's Kass , one of the tallest and bulkiest Rito characters who is nonetheless a Non-Action Guy. The Longest Journey has a former circus performer, Q'aman.

Not surprisingly, his official circus nickname is "The Gentle Giant. Tae, the Bear God of Lusternia. When Tae splinters his essence , the mortal race that results — the Tae'dae, or bearfolk — carry this trait on, known as much for their compassion and charisma as their legendary strength and girth.

Also, the Igasho race. The tallest averaging nine feet or more and hardiest mortal race, they tend to be solitary wanderers, but are generally courteous in their dealings with the outside world. Specifically, it states that he is sentimental, hates arguments, and likes karaoke. Steelheart Massimo fills this trope nicely. He's a massive reploid from Mega Man X: Command Mission in equally massive armor, wielding an equally massive beam-axe.

Though not "dumb", his primary function was? Despite acts of great strength and defense, he's oftentimes heard whining about how things can't be done peacefully. The Iron Golems in Minecraft. They are neutral by nature and will go apeshit if anyone attacks them or a villager, but can be occasionally seen giving villager children a red rose.

The Espinas in the Monster Hunter series is noteworthy for being the only monster that not only doesn't try to kill you on sight, but continues to ignore you even if you hit it, only harming you accidentally if you're too close to its feet or tail while it's moving around, minding its own business. However, if you harass it long enough , it literally Turns Red and goes ballistic on you. Even then, with enough time, it'll calm down and go back to being peaceful. The Dragos from MOTHER 3 are essentially full-size tyrannosaurus rex, and they're one of the gentlest and most playful of friendly creatures you'll find.

It comes as a huge shock to the people of the island when a mechanized drago becomes aggressive, and is a massive Tear Jerker played akin to Old Yeller when you are forced to bring it down. Vigk Vagk the Troll in Ninety-Nine Nights is a massive beast captured by the Orcs and a miniboss in the other characters' campaigns. When he becomes unlockable, he's actually shown as a gentle creature at nature who befriends a weak-willed Goblin soldier.

Myth of Demons is very kind and soft spoken. This is despite being a 7 foot tall behemoth of a man, with enough raw strength to grab and pick up demons twice his size with one hand and throw them through buildings. Not to mention his BFS sized axe which he swings around with ease. He is by far the physically strongest member of the good guys, but he only fights in order to save the land and help his friends. Most of the time. Unfortunately, if he gets his hands on some frogs , that ends and he becomes quite aptly named.

Dragonite is a large, towering dragon that can learn powerful moves like "Outrage" but is quite docile and friendly. Incredibly aggressive , extremely territorial and will beat intruders into a pulp without hesitation, but will go out of its way to restore any part of its own territory damaged by nature through planting trees and hauling in topsoil. Tangrowth is essentially a heap of vines that happens to very stupid and very friendly. Although it does like snow flowers.

The same Swinub is now a fully evolved Mamoswine, and before you rescue the Abomasnow, the Mamoswine is restless and upset because it knows that the current bad weather means its friend is in trouble. Regigigas, once you befriend it after waking it up. In fact, in one game, it's only Level 1 when you encounter it, which makes capturing it a problem. Haxorus, a ferocious-looking dragon with axes for tusks that are unbreakable and can slice through steel beams with one blow.

Lapras, an eight foot tall plesiosaur-like Pokemon, is also known for being very friendly and likes carrying people on its back. Unfortunately, its trusting nature made it endangered. Golurk is a nine foot tall Golem that resembles a giant robot. It was originally made to be a protector of people and Pokemon. It likes to play with children at parks and playgrounds , and is fiercely protective of them. Heck, due to the Nature i. The weapon also made him immortal, and thousands of years of wandering in self-imposed exile changed his outlook.

Edgar is a gigantic bearded Spaniard with bigger arms than Chris Redfield. He's also pleasant and soft-spoken, loves art and is in fact a painter, and wouldn't need to refer to his sensitive side as a side. He only breaks away from being possibly the second nicest character in the game when he's pissed. Fittingly, he has a bull motif going on.

Linda the lungfish turns out to be this way as well. It turns out her kidnapping of children was a result of mind control. Rift 's bahmi are basically the draenei of Telara. Boman Delgado from Rival Schools. He looks like a Scary Black Man at first, but the game reveals he's actually religious and hates unnecessary fighting. If you get to know him, Gan Isurugi becomes this too.

The Gedo ending in the first game has him cheerfully carrying Akira on his shoulder , and according to his profile he's a Country Mouse with a very large family. From what Freudia told Spiritia, dragons are kind, gentle creatures, and this dude is no exception. After being freed from his seal by Tia and Grolla , he agrees to take them to Iris, as he wasn't happy with her enslaving him and making it look like she was kidnapped by him to accomplish more portions of her plans, and he rescues Tia when Iris self-destructs her own palace in an attempt to take Tia down with it, and returns her home to everyone.

The Devil's Playhouse we have Sal, a hulking man-sized cockroach who wouldn't hurt a fly and is probably the nicest, most easy-going guy in the game. This unfortunately also makes him the game's Butt-Monkey. Shadow of the Colossus has Phalanx. It is the only Colossus that will never attack Wander, even when he begins shooting arrows at it and stabbing its weak spots.

Avion might also qualify, since it will not attempt to attack Wander at all unless he provokes it first. Claude from Shining Force II is a golem that served the ancients even before you get the chance to add him to your party, the turtle pet you can get can also evolve into a "monster" that's actually kind and helpful Subverted in the game Sly 3: During the preceding game , Murray was quite fond of destruction, being a big bruiser. Now, he has taken to the path of peace Afterwards, Murray who was OK breaking objects but was still trying to be peaceful against people is present when one of his friends gets threatened by the villain.

I'll floss my teeth with your spine! Bark the Polar Bear from Sonic the Hedgehog is the largest character in Sonic the Fighters , and one of the strongest. His official bio describes him as "blunt and quiet, but gentle, shy and with a kind heart". This went over the head of the comic writers , who wrote him and Bean as villains. Thunder Hawk from Street Fighter. He is a 7 foot tall Native American fighter who fights to save his village from Shadaloo and also doesn't go anywhere without his pet Eagle as seen in his victory pose.

Zangief, too, especially in his ending in Street Fighter IV where he acknowledges his young fans with quite the affection. The biggest proof is here. In Subnautica , Reefbacks are so gigantic that whole ecosystems live on their backs and they are also completely harmless. The Sea Emperor, which dwarfs every other creature in the game, is despite its size and threatening appearance not only very gentle but also intelligent and philosophical, and capable of telepathically communicating with the player character.

She's also the key to curing the Kharaa. Subverted with The Heavy from Team Fortress 2: Like a hibernating bear, the Heavy appears to be a gentle giant. Also like a bear, confusing his deliberate, sleepy demeanor with gentleness will get you ripped limb from limb. Though he speaks simply and moves with an economy of energy that's often confused with napping, the Heavy isn't dumb , he's not your big friend , and he generally wishes you'd just shut up before he has to make you shut up. Technically a Double Subversion , if Poker Night at the Inventory is to be believed, which reveals several aspects of his personality not previously seen in his game of origin.

For instance, as a child, he buried a dead sparrow out of sorrow for it after another kid had killed it with a throwing knife at a training camp. The same can be said for the comics, where Heavy insults a child for expecting free candy on Halloween. When the kid starts to cry, Heavy frantically apologizes and gives him money. In-game, the Heavy is more of a Boisterous Bruiser.

He also enjoys telling his teammates that they are "credit to team" and is often heard saying "I love this doctor! King from Tekken is a pro-wrestling priest who is gentle and kind to the children of his small town in Mexico, despite his massive size and intimidating jaguar mask. This carries over into his appearance in Namco High: His successor with the same name since Tekken 3 King II took up the mantle and the trope, seeing that he was one of the children raised by the first King before his untimely death against Ogre.

He resumes being the Face for the wrestling industry and be an idol for the children watching him while resuming to donate the money he got from wrestling to the orphanage that raised him, and other orphanages. Hank from Trauma Team is The Big Guy who loves flowers, has a soft spot for a young patient of his, and performs operations requiring precision and caution rather than speed.

Undertale uses the trope for Asgore, the King of Monsters. Asgore is easily the largest character in the game, wears some badass armor that has a Badass Cape to go with it, has a manly beard, and wields a trident that is taller than he is. While Asgore is capable of kicking ass when push comes to shove, he is actually quite the pushover as certain characters will tell you about him since he loves to garden, make tea, and had gained an Embarrassing Nickname of "Lord Fluffybuns" which he decided to roll with.

Not only that, but a message left by him in his home shows that Asgore is willing to listen to people if they have a problem they need to talk about. That being said, Asgore can be challenging to fight and while he doesn't want to take your life and will try to delay the inevitable, circumstances dictate that he must kill you.

World Of War Craft ': Tauren are nearly an entire race of Gentle Giants. No, you'd be best not to trust those vicious promotional images they gave you. The uncorrupted draenei introduced in The Burning Crusade are sort of Alliance tauren, really. Only both more humanoid and weirder-looking.

Both races, however, can be fearsome in battle, especially against a foe like the Burning Legion or the Scourge. On the whole, neither group is looking to start a fight, but they know how to finish one if it finds them. He really gets upset if the player kills anything, and tries to convince you to complete quests in nonviolent ways. Not as easy as it sounds. The Land Ship is enormous, slow and not generally considered to be much good, competetively.

However, the gargantuan size and huge hitpoint pool plus a good gun earn it some love as being interesting, and it has broadly been characterised as a massive Kind Hearted Simpleton. The Custodians of The Secret World are Humongous Mecha with the power to flatten virtually anything in their path when annoyed. However, most of the time they aren't used for attack or even security: When people first meet him, they look at his face and presume he's guilty. After spending five minutes with him, they'll insist he's innocent.

He took his job as an actor in a henshin hero show so he could use his impressive physique while hiding his face, so that'll he make children happy.

And Terry Fawles from the third game. Despite his stature and scarred face, he's a childlike, sensitive man who happens to be Dahlia Hawthorne's ex-boyfriend. When he's Driven to Suicide , you will shed a tear. Sakura Ogami of Dangan Ronpa towers over her fellow students , is bulky and muscular with the Face of a Thug and encyclopaedic knowledge of how to beat someone down due to being a wrestler , and is one of the most polite, kind, and noble souls in the school. All the way down to her suicide to protect her friends, as she'd rather die herself than be forced by the Mastermind to kill another.

Gonta Gokuhara from New Dangan Ronpa V3 comes off as intimidating at first and can be quite scary when angry , but in reality he's very friendly, and would never use his strength to hurt others, but he's also rather gullible. Since he's been disconnected from civilization up until high school, he tries to make himself a "perfect gentleman" so he can fit in with society. Unfortunately, the "Gentle" part gets averted in Chapter 4 when he murders Miu, but he apologizes while killing her and the circumstances of the murder make him a Sympathetic Murderer.

The Great Gozu from Dangan Ronpa 3: Future Arc, is the extremely large and powerful "former ultimate wrestler" who works as a bodyguard for the chairman of the Future Federation and wears a weird bull mask but, following in the franchise's tradition, he is actually the most kind hearted and moral of the group.

He is vehemently opposed to his comrades decision to kill their members one-by-one to end the Mokuma Hunter killing game and tries to talk reason into them. He is also seen in the background covering Chisa's dead body with his jacket and praying after Bandai's death. The only time that he actually fights anyone is to protect Makoto and Aoi from being killed by the distrustful members of the Federation, and he chooses to side with them over his own friends and promises to help them survive the game. Unlike the other examples of this trope in the franchise, Gozu never kills or hurts anyone.

The worst thing he does is cuss a blue streak due to his anger at his comrades bloodlust. Not that being one of the few purely good characters helps him any he is the third person to be killed at the end of episode 2, unlike the above two examples, who lasted until a bit later on in their respective series Little Busters!

He is big, he is muscular, and he is hostile, but he nevertheless has a soft side and a big heart. He is especially gentle towards his best friend, The Cheat, of whom he is quite protective and he loves arts and crafts. Also, despite being the oldest of the Strong brothers, Strong Mad is also the most childish and naive, and a bit of a Cloudcuckoolander.

Mogarth, when not in battle, is very much this. In his first conversation with Walrus and Requiem he zoned out and acted like a dork.

In Daughter of the Lilies , mercenary leader Orrig is this. He's a scary looking orc berserker, but a perfectly nice employer who considers it his job to take care of his employees. Ironically, he is way more mature and sensible than the half-orc and the elf in his team, both of whom have short tempers and are prone to violent outbursts. Kahn from EVIL is easily the biggest and strongest character, but also the nicest.

Veetans are usually this. Justin from El Goonish Shive , from Rhoda's point of view. She's normally scared of people bigger than her and his 6' to her 5' is quite a difference , but also knows that he's friends with Nanase, and that Nanase wouldn't be friends with anyone bad. Also Greg, who is 6'10, falls under this.

Although he is a martial arts master he has never been shown to be violent. Trolls in Fairy Dust are very large, physically powerful and, if necessary, capable of violence, but they typically have mellow personalities. A giant only by comparison to his companions, the Wallaroo Brisbane of Faux Pas is one of the most laid-back characters of the strip. Sawtooth Rivergrinder often just Sawtooth for short from Freefall , is a construction droid who's very laid back most of the time, but gets a bit incensed when robots try to disassemble other robots.

Not overly cautious about damaging buildings, although this is probably because, as a construction droid, he can repair most of the damage he'd be likely to do. Adam from Girl Genius also known as Punch is a mute Frankenstein's Monster style creature, often depicted as a lumbering moron in plays and stories. People who know him however describe him as a wise and gentle soul who spent his spare time making toys for orphan children. Gith the bodyguard from Glorianna is a scary-looking brute, but turns out to be kind and friendly, if a bit shy.

He's a massive ex-soldier with a heart of gold and a face like dog meat. Equius is one of the strongest of trolls on Alternia. Even gently patting his beloved lusus — one of the strongest creatures on his planet — will leave a bruise. While he has a racist attitude, Equius speaks in a polite, formal tone and loves his moirail Nepeta a Cute Bruiser more than anyone else. It's interesting to note that he is also one of the less violent trolls, and only spars with his robots. Gamzee could be considered this before his freakout. A stoner Love Freak who by himself did more damage to the Black King than anyone else on his team with the exception of the God-Tier Vriska.

He's also commonly depicted as the tallest of the trolls in fanart as no one has a canon length. Roan from Impure Blood. Fish from Manly Guys Doing Manly Things is even bigger and stronger than the average Gyarados thanks to Jared feeding him well, but he's as docile as a well-trained dog. Though he does still make occasional attempts to eat other Pokemon. Malloy from morphE has a sprite so tall that it almost breaks the top of the frame and he certainly looks like he could hold himself well in brawl. Despite his imposing structure he is the only member of the cast to take pity on Asia for her inability to cast magic and actually plays a fatherly role to her, trying to get her adjusted to her new environment.

The Order of the Stick: The "Monster in the Darkness" is a gentle giant played straight. Terribly powerful and scary, but turns out to be a nice guy. When challenged to a game of "hit the other person as lightly as you can", it earnestly tries not realizing that its opponent was only trying to hit it with her sword He hits his opponent and her horse straight through a stone wall and several hundred feet away. Ruby from Ruby's World , who keeps her kind nature after her transformation unless provoked. In Scandinavia and the World , Norway is the largest of the Nordics, by a margin of at least half a head, but has the mellowest personality and is so in tune with nature that he can get butterflies to land on his finger.

In Schlock Mercenary , where there exists flying tanks and low-profile armor that turns even the smallest grunt into a Flying Brick , size isn't as important as one might think. Nonetheless, there are examples: Corporal Elizabeth, a gorilla like alien about the size of an elephant, is usually depicted as one of the kinder souls among her peers, and has been described as "like a kitten, really.

Burt Nicholson, even without armor, is the size of a shed and can safely deliver a punch that would shatter every bone in a 21st-century boxer's arm.

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He's also one of the few unambiguously good people in the entire series, is well-meaning and loyal, and once dove off a platform to rescue a falling enemy spy who'd been playing him like a cheap record up to that point, simply because she'd been rendered unconscious and couldn't save herself. Jeffy "Brad" Bradley started out relatively scrawny, but a chain of events involving his own decapitation revealed that without deliberate stunting he would turn into the eight-foot mountain of muscle he spent the rest of his time as, but he never really lost the respectful habits he developed while smaller than a house.

His eventual death comes about when he blows up a crashing tank with improvised explosives rather than risk it crashing into a place it could inflict serious damage, hurling him out to freefall into the side of a building without functional armour. Rich of Thespiphobia is usually this usually. Mess with his friends , however Uaid, the giant enchanted frog-man-cyborg in Unsounded.

He sorrowfully regrets destroying the home of some squirrels, and then he eats them , and then they fall out of his chest unharmed. He's generally very non-confrontational, but threatening Matty turns out to be quite the Berserk Button for him. Umf the rat of Scurry. The mice accept him as a member of their colony mostly due to his gentle, affable nature, despite being huge even by rat standards.

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Sahne is a mixture of this and Big Fun. Unlike most Earth demons in the story, she's a kind, fun-loving demon who easily makes friends with the main protagonists and defected from Hell so she could start a family with an angel woman named Kinako and a water demon named Lakritz. She also positively adores her stepson, Tirol Kinako's mute son.

It seems to be in battle with the setting's superhero team, but it's only defending itself, and it turns out AG-I waited until the nationwide Weirdness Censor kicked in before attacking it because otherwise the nearby town would have been horrified that someone was trying to take out their beloved town mascot.

In The Gamer's Alliance , Daven and Ismail , despite their size, are actually quite gentle guys outside combat. Regardless, he is the moral compass of the team. She's about the tallest female contributor on That Guy with the Glasses and is sometimes depicted as rather strong, but she is a rather nice person in real life.

Marcus Roddy of Survival of the Fittest - he is absolutely massive, yet wouldn't hurt a fly. However, due to various exceptions, it's easier to say that when dealing with very large characters in Survival of the Fittest , roughly half are subversions of this trope, and the other half are played straight. Vesa Turunen started as straddling the border between playing this straight and subverting it, but eventually turned into a Blood Knight and Death Seeker.

Craig Hoyle in season four of Survival Of the Fittest also certainly counts. He's one of the tallest students at Bayview High and probably the heaviest, at 6'7" and well over pounds. Craig joined the football team, but only because he wanted to be more popular; to boot, he's quite horrible at any part of the game besides being a wall of meat. Yet he has such a gentle, easygoing personality among other things, he's a Kindhearted Cat Lover and frequently promotes a positive attitude.

SCP is a sentient T battle tank. A picture was taken of it by SCP a polaroid camera that produces a picture of the target doing whatever they want to do and it produced an image of in a meadow, underneath some trees, with birds perched on its main gun and flowers growing all over it.

In other words, dreams of a world where tanks don't need to exist. It has never attacked an unarmed being, and only fires upon people who fire at it with weapons that can harm it first, with only one notable exception: Two 2 D-class personnel D, D handcuffed together. D fitted with 'dead man's switch' to induce explosion if D killed. The former wears Centurion power armor usually power armor over power armor , acted as the Emperor's teddy bear, and as horribly blunt as he is does speak up for the common citizen such as Boy, the vox-serf whenever anyone bad mouths them.

The latter is considered by his father as " too fucking nice " and it's true: Many of his sons have had their backs broken after being given one of his spine-breaking hugs and Magnus winds up killing him again after having his already broken back being hugged for a little too long. He got better in quick order but still.

Genie's Kindness from the Aladdin: The Series episode "The Seven Faces Of Genie" is a hulking giant who towers over the city Aladdin and the Sultan are staying at, but true to his moniker is very kind, gentle, friendly, and sensitive. The Amazing World of Gumball has Hector, who is a massive ape like creature, who although seems menacing, is actually very gentle.

Because of this, he is often seen as boring to his class mates. In "The Colossus", it is shown why he lives a "boring" life, which is because, as a giant, he can be very destructive when excited. There is also the Chimera , who is a massive monster made out of toy parts who befriends Anais. In the episode he appeared in, he was shown to have been thought of as a criminal due to breaking into houses to look for a new friend after his creator died. Jake Long , giants are peaceful despite their huge size.

Tiger from An American Tail. Double points for being the lone friendly cat to the Mousekewitz family. Appa, Pipsqueak, and Flopsy from Avatar: Sky Bison in general seem rather friendly towards humans, as wild ones are seen allowing humans to get close and wander through their herds.

Just don't get close to their babies, though. The eponymous character in Big Buck Bunny. Modo from Biker Mice from Mars is a very fine example of this, although Limburger's dimwitted henchman Grease Pit could also count. Gor from Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys. He really hates to fight, and often does so only if his friends are in danger.

His pacifistic nature causes him to try and talk to the villains, but it rarely works except in one Aesop episode ; and there have been occasions where his own friends goaded him into transforming into Gormungus, a hulk-like creature, to win battles or save a crew member, usually Spydor.

Despite this setback, the band pursued their course to its conclusion on 's Giant for a Day! All progressive rock stylings were purged in favour of radio-friendly soft rock and further unsuccessful attempts at hit singles: Giant for a Day! Derek Shulman eventually remembered it as being "real contrived" [14] while Kerry Minnear would confess to having felt unsure as to whether he had anything to contribute to the album although he did make an attempt to write a commercial single, "It's Only Goodbye".

In , Gentle Giant relocated their centre of operations to Los Angeles in order to record their eleventh album, Civilian. This was a record of short rock songs with a strong New Wave influence. While keeping the reduced instrumental approach of Giant for a Day! While Kerry Minnear would pronounce himself far more satisfied with this album and its songs, Ray Shulman would eventually state "I hated making that last record, I hated being involved with it.

As it turns out we as a band were just not good at being rock or pop stars. We would have loved to be as popular as a Genesis or Rush or Yes. In hindsight, I sometimes think that Gentle Giant was wrongfully put into the progressive rock category. Much of what we did was very clever, but we certainly didn't do these long complex tunes like Yes or Genesis did. Gary Green reflects on the final Gentle Giant split [15]. In the summer of , the group quietly disbanded. In , Derek Shulman recalled that "the creative juices just weren't flowing. I was living in Los Angeles at the time when we broke up.

We weren't really sure what direction to take. I don't regret the decision we made to disband, and I'd do it again if we were to do the whole thing all over again. Once we knew that, we enjoyed ourselves. We decided to quit then rather than let it go on too long. Gary Green's opinion of the split differs. In he commented: They had been musicians longer than I had, and they had tasted it pretty good when they were with Simon Dupree, at least in Britain. And they were looking for some of that in Giant too. My feeling is that we could have continued on as PFM did, or Yes , and still continue.

If we had adhered to the statement we started out with, we could still be playing that, and still be earning a reasonable living. That's all water under the bridge and that's fine now. It seemed a bit silly to cut off your creativity for that kind of thing. He has written soundtracks for computer games, as well as producing DVDs for artists such as Genesis and Queen.

John Weathers went on to drum for Man an association that lasted until and most recently was spotted playing drums for Glenn Cornick's Wild Turkey again Kerry Minnear returned to the UK and settled in Cornwall , spending many years working in gospel music [14] He now runs Alucard Music , the organization supervising the legal and royalty issues regarding Gentle Giant's music. Phil Shulman retired entirely from the music business following his time in Gentle Giant. He subsequently worked as a teacher, in retail, and ran a gift shop in Gosport , Hampshire , UK before his retirement.

Several of these under the collective title of Then were spoken-word pieces in which he reminisced about his upbringing in the Glasgow slums. One of these pieces - "Rats" - appeared on Damon Shulman's solo album In Pieces and can be heard as an audio stream on Damon Shulman's homepage and MySpace page made available in April Original Gentle Giant drummer Martin Smith settled in Southampton and drummed with various bands there - he died on 2 March Despite having seen many of their progressive rock contemporaries reunite for moneyspinning tours, Gentle Giant are notable for having consistently refused to reunite as a full band.

In , the Gentle Giant fanbase unsuccessfully attempted to persuade the members to perform a reunion concert. Reasons cited by members for their rejection include busy schedules, health problems, lack of practice on instruments, and other personal reasons. I think it's impossible. It would be very difficult. The whole process would take such a long time and you would have to give up what ever you are doing. We both have careers independent of GG. There have been two partial reunions, both featuring between two and four of the band members and with neither event being identified as a formal reunion of Gentle Giant.

The first of these took place in and the second in developing further in This quartet reunited as a studio-only project solely in order to record three new compositions for the Scraping the Barrel box set "Home Again", "Moog Fugue", and "Move Over". There was no live activity and the quartet disbanded immediately after the recordings. A partial reunion involved the creation of a new band called Rentle Giant in order to play Gentle Giant material. This band featured two other former members of Gentle Giant guitarist Gary Green and drummer Malcolm Mortimore who recruited three noted jazz-fusion musicians to complete the band - Roger Carey bass and vocals, from Liane Carroll 's band , Andy Williams guitar, collaborator with Carey in the Engine Clutch And Gearbox trio , and John Donaldson piano and keyboards.

Green also contributed lead vocals to some of the songs. At the same time, the band expanded to a seven-piece by adding current 10cc vocalist Mick Wilson as dedicated lead singer. About six months later, it was announced that Minnear was leaving the band for personal reasons, and that Three Friends planned to continue as a six-piece. Minnear later revealed that the split was amicable and that he had left for reasons of respect as the Shulman brothers had "not been particularly enthusiastic" about the existence of Three Friends.

Minnear has also recently announced plans for him to collaborate with Ray Shulman on a new writing project. There has been renewed interest in Gentle Giant since , with new fan clubs, new releases of live concerts and previously unreleased material, and several tribute albums. Sadly for fans, the rights of the band's catalogue are scattered among many companies, not all of which are keen on re-releasing the albums properly. In particular, the first four albums have yet to receive definitive CD releases.

For example, the title track on Acquiring the Taste begins with an obvious defect, possibly from a damaged master tape, on all current CD and vinyl releases. The compilation Edge of Twilight includes a corrected version of the song. Conflicting evidence sometimes reports that this defect exists on the original vinyl release of the album, with the opening note bending up as the tape comes up to speed - probably an engineering error. In July , the first eponymous album was re-released by Repertoire; in December, , they released Acquiring the Taste ; in December, , Octopus in a mini-sleeve with the original design of Roger Dean was released, and in December, , German label Repertoire released Three Friends in a mini-sleeve with the original British release design.

Although not widely distributed, these re-issues have been praised for their production quality and remastering. Before that, all first four albums have been re-released on Universal Japan label. In , to celebrate the band's 35th anniversary, a series of digitally remastered and specially packaged CDs of their later albums were released by Derek Shulman 's company, DRT Entertainment. They all featured unreleased live tracks of varying quality as bonuses.

Many of these albums most notably, In a Glass House were previously difficult to purchase in North America without resorting to imports. The re-released albums are: In a interview Derek Shulman also indicated that plans were in the works to put out an animated film based on The Power and the Glory this has yet to come to fruition. In the original mastertapes for Three Friends and Octopus were located and Alucard Music reissued each album with a bonus live performance of material from each respective album. Each album was remastered by Ray Shulman and Francis Kervorkian both of whom worked on the remasters.

The band members have written new sleevenotes for both albums. In , "Three Piece Suite" was released. It contained tracks from the first three albums: These tracks were re-mixed by Steven Wilson from the available multi-track tapes. Some songs from the first three albums were not included in the set as the multi-tracks for those specific songs have been lost.

The set was available as a CD of the re-mixed songs and a Blu-Ray disk. There were also new video animations included on the 5. This release came packaged as a single Digipack with the two disks, a 16 page booklet, new artwork and was approved by the band for release. Gentle Giant's music was mostly composed by Kerry Minnear and Ray Shulman , with additional musical ideas contributed by Derek Shulman who was also known to contribute entire songs.

Lyrics were mostly written by Phil Shulman and Derek Shulman Kerry Minnear wrote some lyrics up until Phil's departure following the release of Octopus — subsequent lyrics were mostly written by Derek Shulman, with help from Kerry Minnear. By the standards of progressive rock, Gentle Giant's music is generally considered to be particularly complex and demanding. It shares several aspects with that of other progressive rock bands, including: However, it has been noted that in spite of the comparatively complex initial sound, Gentle Giant's music is in fact fairly traditional in terms of harmony and features relatively few complex chords.

In common with most s progressive rock, Gentle Giant compositions are closer to early 20th century neoclassicism than to contemporary classical music some Gentle Giant songs, such as "Black Cat", "Experience" and "So Sincere", do utilise more complicated modernist harmonics.

A comprehensive discography [32] is available on the official web site. For many years this remained the only Gentle Giant bootleg and no others appeared before the Compact Disc era. No other bootlegs have since been seen on vinyl. The album achieved such fame, however, that the band decided to adopt the title for their official live double album Playing the Fool omitting the final "e" , released two years later.

Despite the sleeve description, the bootleg album is not live and was not recorded during any "American tour". Stream or buy on: Recording Date July 5, - July 6, Queen of the Night. Nubian Lady Kenny Barron. Jungle Plum Kenny Barron. The Poor Fishermen Yusef Lateef. African Song Kenny Barron. Queen of the Night Yusef Lateef.

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