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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~~|Funny Animals~~]], 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.

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.

This is a common [[Artistic License]] for various reasons, and can be easily ignored when either only a single individual is out of scale from its [[Real Life]] counterpart, or when all animals are ''consistently'' larger or smaller than [[Real Life]]. This trope focuses primarily on animals who are not merely depicted on a different scale from [[Real Life]], but on different scales from each other.

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== Variant 1: Unusually Large Examples: ==

== Variant 1: Unusually Large Examples ==

=== [[Anime and Manga]] ===

* 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.

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* ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'': Roger Rabbit looks a little large for a rabbit, and the weasels look awfully large for weasels.

* The weasels in ''[[The Wind in the Willows]]'' segment of Disney's ''[[The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad]]'' are awfully large for weasels too.

* The villain of Disney's ''[[Dinosaur]]'' is a Carnotaurus that's three times the size of the film's hero, Aladar (an Iguanodon). In real life, [[Somewhere a Paleontologist Is Crying|Carnotaurus was ]]''[[Somewhere a Paleontologist Is Crying|smaller ]]''[[Somewhere a Paleontologist Is Crying|than Iguanodon]].

* The villain of Disney's ''[[Dinosaur]]'' is a Carnotaurus that's three times the size of the film's hero, Aladar (an Iguanodon). In real life, [[Somewhere a Paleontologist Is Crying|Carnotaurus was]]''[[Somewhere a Paleontologist Is Crying|smaller]]''[[Somewhere a Paleontologist Is Crying|than Iguanodon]].

* Similarly, Rudy, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Ice Age|Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs]]'' is portrayed in the film as a Baryonyx that's twice the size of a [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]]! In real life, the only dinosaur that is actually that size is a Spinosaurus, a close relative. However, the T. rex sized ''Suchomimus'' may be a species of Baryonyx, which may lend some credibility to Rudy's size.

** Ice Age fans however often seem to forget the fact that the dinosaurs encountered by the main characters are living millions of years after the Cretaceous and have obviously become larger than their ancestors, as Mamma Dino is (according to the creators of the film) twice as big as an actual T-Rex. Most other animals in the film are similarly scaled up, including Buck who is a weasel but close to human size if compared to the other characters.

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=== [[Sequential Art]] ===

* The stories of [[Wilhelm Busch]] feature two ducks (no [[Funny Animal~~|Funny Animals~~]], real ducks) which can pull a grown man out of the water, and may beetles [[Big Creepy-Crawlies|as big as a human hand]].

* The stories of [[Wilhelm Busch]] feature two ducks (no [[Funny Animal]]s, real ducks) which can pull a grown man out of the water, and may beetles [[Big Creepy-Crawlies|as big as a human hand]].

=== [[Video Games]] ===

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* Most [[Pokémon]] based on small animals are enormous compared to whatever creature they're based on. Just for a small flavour, there's Raticate the forty-pound rat, and Pikachu the foot-tall mouse.

** [[Averted]] with Scolipede. It's eight feet long, which would sound really ridiculous for a centipede or millipede, if not for the fact that ''in real life there was [[wikipedia:Arthropleura|something]] bigger than it.''

* [[Jurassic Park Warpath]] may also have type 2, but the only one that stands out atm is the raptors. They're Megaraptors, not Utah- or Velociraptors, (back when Megaraptors were thought to be raptors), but at 20 to 25 ft long, they were still nowhere near T-Rex size, or the other large theropods.

* [[Jurassic Park Warpath]] may also have type 2, but the only one that stands out atm is the raptors. They're Megaraptors, not Utah- or Velociraptors, (back when Megaraptors were thought to be raptors), but at 20 to 25 ft long, they were still nowhere near T-Rex size, or the other large theropods.

* The giant octopus in [[Ecco the Dolphin]]. There ''are'' huge giant squids, and the largest North Pacific Giant Octopus are perhaps 14 or ~~15ft~~ long, but this one was at least twice the size of Ecco, a bottlenose dolphin, which grows to about ~~12ft~~ long.

* The giant octopus in [[Ecco the Dolphin]]. There ''are'' huge giant squids, and the largest North Pacific Giant Octopus are perhaps 14 or 15 ft long, but this one was at least twice the size of Ecco, a bottlenose dolphin, which grows to about 12 ft long.

** The original Ecco also had gigantic seahorses and trilobites in the distant past.

* ''Animal Kaiser'' has fish/insects/birds/bats/snakes which are at least the size of large cats.

=== [[Web Animation]] ===

* Lampshaded a few times with Kevin in ''[[Kevin and Kell]]''~~--for~~ a rabbit, he's built more like a small heavyweight wrestler.

* Lampshaded a few times with Kevin in ''[[Kevin and Kell]]''—for a rabbit, he's built more like a small heavyweight wrestler.

===[[Web Comics]]===

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* [[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] 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: ==

== 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.

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* [[Miscellaneous Disney Shorts|The Disney animated short]] ''Goliath II'', which is about a baby elephant that's the size of his father's (a normal-sized elephant) toenails.

==Examples That Show Both Variants:==

==Examples That Show Both Variants==

=== [[Film]] ===

* The [[Rhino Rampage|rhino guards]] from ''[[Robin Hood (Disney film)|Robin Hood]]'' are for some reason, the same size as the film's [[Big Bad]], Prince John (a lion) and his [[The Dragon|Dragon,]] the Sheriff of Nottingham (a wolf).

** Also, [[Robin Hood (Disney film)|Robin Hood]] and Maid Marian are unusually large for foxes, given the fact that the former is almost the same size as Little John (a bear), and that the latter is the same height as a human whenever she is dancing.

* In ''[[Fantastic Mr. Fox]]'', while the foxes are decently proportioned to the humans, there's a bear who is the same size as they ~~are -- and~~ a rat who is ''taller'' than Mr. Fox.

* In ''[[Fantastic Mr. Fox]]'', while the foxes are decently proportioned to the humans, there's a bear who is the same size as they are—and a rat who is ''taller'' than Mr. Fox.

* [[Rango]] is especially guilty of this. While animals like Rattlesnake Jake, the metal-beaked hawk, and the wise armadillo are of proper size, the citizens who populate the town of Dirt (more specifically a gila monster, fox, turkey vulture, bobcat, and an ancient [[Corrupt Hick]] tortoise) are the size of Rango, the former pet chameleon.