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A [[Visual Pun]] where an extremely short character is introduced in a manner that makes them appear much taller than they actually are. Also the inverse, where someone ([[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|or something]]) of great size or height is made to appear normal-sized at first, or perhaps introduced in a shorter or chibi-like form.
A subtrope is [[Big Shadow, Little Creature]], where this is done via a large shadow cast on the wall. [[Depth Deception]] is the [[Super-Trope]]—all examples that don't involve people should go there. May involve the use of [[
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In the first episode of ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'', after being knocked down by a ball Ataru appears to have an enormous monk towering over him; it's only when he gets to his feet again that we realise the monk is half his size.
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** The inverse happens a short time later when a vast door opens and General W. R. Monger (tiny compared to the [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|49'11 1/2"]] Ginormica) comes out. The two glowing eyes were just the lights of his jetpack.
** And it happened a third time when Dr. Cockroach is trying to shrink Susan back to normal [[Lightning Can Do Anything|with electricity]]. When she comes to, she sees the others standing over her and she thinks she's small again. Turns out they were just standing over her face.
* ''[[Shrek]]''. Our first glimpse of Lord Farquaad involves him striding dramatically along a corridor, camera focused on his face or body [[
* Finis Everglot in ''[[Corpse Bride]]'' is first shown talking face to face with his wife. Then the camera pans out and it turns out he is standing on a stool and is really half her height.
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* In the [[Buster Keaton]] film ''[[Three Ages]]'', caveman Buster tries to grab a woman lying on the ground by the hair and drag her away, as cavemen were apt to do back then. The woman stands up and turns out to be [[Statuesque Stunner|a good two feet taller than Buster]].
* ''[[Black Robe]]''. Father LaForgue is harangued by the shaman Mestigoit, who is filmed close to the camera—it's only when he comes face-to-face with LaForgue (who is sitting down) that we realise how short he is.
* Played with in ''[[The Transporter]] 3''. Frank Martin battles his way through a gang of mooks; after a disposing of them another man enters the room, shown via the standard [[
* In ''[[Ichi the Killer]]'', Jiji is a small old man who wears baggy clothes. When a thug threatens him at the end of the film, he strips off his clothes and reveals that he's ''ludicrously'' muscled, then breaks every bone in the thug's body.
== [[Live
* In the pilot episode of ''[[Get Smart]]'', KAOS is run by the mysterious "[[Mister Big]]" (as opposed to Siegfried). It's only when Mr Big and Maxwell Smart are in the same room do we realise that Mr Big is actually a dwarf.
* There's an episode of ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' where Sam leaps into a guy who works at a carnival. While he's checking out his new reflection in a funhouse mirror, one of the other carnies walks up and starts a conversation. At first we only see his reflection, which looks the same height as Sam, but when Sam turns to reply to him, he's revealed to be a dwarf.
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