Animals Not to Scale: Difference between revisions

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This trope is about animals that are either unusually large or unusually small for their species. This is especially true of [[Funny Animal]]s, which tend to be within normal human size ranges. Thus a small animal (say, [[Mickey Mouse|a mouse]]) will be about as tall as a very short person or an average housecat, which is gargantuan compared to the actual species, while a big one(say, [[Yogi Bear|a bear]]) would be as tall as a normal person.

 

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== Variant 1: Unusually Large Examples ==

* In-universe variant: The Pokedex lists Charizard's average height as 5'7", a typical height for a human. In the ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' anime, they are portrayed as being at least twice that size.

** Another example is Nidoking and Nidoqueen, who are depicted in the anime to be the size of an SUV, but the stats and size comparison from the games show them to be roughly the height of an 8-year-old child.

* The main cast in the Catillac Cats segments of ''[[Heathcliff and The Catillac Cats]]'' are all cats, but there are some vast differences in height among them: Riff-Raff is about the size that a cat walking upright would be, Cleo is about twice as tall, and the rest are human-sized. Heathcliff himself is also regular cat-sized, and while this is consistent with the characters in his segments, this trope comes into play when he crosses over with The Catillac Cats, as has happened several times in the series.

* [[Kaeloo]] the frog is about a head taller than Stumpy the squirrel and slightly taller than Mr. [[Species Surname|Cat]]. Quack-Quack, who is a duckling, is in in turn half a head taller than ''Kaeloo''. In the [http://www.cube-creative.fr/en/projet/356/making-of-kaeloo Making Of]{{Dead link}} video, it's shown that Mr. Cat and Stumpy are actually reasonably sized for a domestic cat and a squirrel. To make things weirder, Kaeloo is often described as being ''little''.

 

== Variant 2: Unusually Small Examples ==

=== Anime and Manga ===

* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', May has a very small panda named Xiao Mei; often times she is mistaken for a cat by other characters in the series.

** Sort of [[Justified Trope|justified]] in that she was supposedly stunted as a cub due to an unnamed illness.

 

=== [[Film]] ===