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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]]
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* 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.
* At the way end of the ''[[Kirby of the Stars]]'' anime, {{spoiler|It turns out that Nightmare Enterprises' salesman, seen only chest-upward on a screen up to that point, has little more than feet beyond that.}}
* There was a yonkoma omake of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' invoking this, in which Edward claims he's about 160
* The first episode of ''[[Slayers]]'' doesn't give any way of determining Lina's height until she meets up with Gourrey.
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* "Your Robot is Defective" from ''[[Zathura]]''.
* 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
* 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 [[Hitler Cam]] to make him look big, but in close-up so we don't see how big. Frank says, "Let me guess. You're the smart one." The mook replies, "No. I am the big one." and knocks Frank across the room. Then we see he's not just the standard big mook, but a [[Giant Mook]] [[One Head Taller]] than Frank!
* 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.
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