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'''Subtropes include:'''
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* [[Bigger Is Better in Bed]]
** [[Gag Penis]]
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* [[Shoulders of Doom]]
* [[Base on Wheels]]
* [[Big Fancy Castle]]
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* [[Unnecessarily Large Interior]]
* [[Giant Poofy Sleeves]]
* [[Giant Waist Ribbon]]
* [[Always a Bigger Fish]]
** [[Summon Bigger Fish]]
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* [[Rodents of Unusual Size]]
* [[Doorstopper]]
* [[Epic Movie]]
* [[Summer Blockbuster]]
* [[Adipose Rex]]
* [[Amazonian Beauty]]
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* [[Statuesque Stunner]]
* [[Airborne Aircraft Carrier]]
* [[Big Bulky Bomb]]
* [[BFG (weapon)|BFG]]
** [[Hand Cannon]]▼
** [[Wave Motion Gun]]
* [[
▲* [[Hand Cannon]]
* [[Fixed Forward-Facing Weapon]]
* [[More Dakka]]
* [[Tank Goodness]]
* [[Everything Is Big in Texas]]
* [[Frank's 2000-Inch TV]]
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* [[Treasure Is Bigger in Fiction]]
* '''[[Bold Inflation]]'''
* [[Compensating for Something]] (a common [[Lampshade Hanging]], because [[Freud Was Right]])
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* [[Square-Cube Law]] (Some of the above tropes are impossible because of this)
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{{examples}}▼
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== Anime
* The eponymous [[Gunbuster]].
* [[Great Mazinger]] was notably larger than [[Mazinger Z]].
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* ''[[Queen's Blade|Queens Blade]]'''s Cattleya is this trope in festish form. She's [[Gentle Giant|tall]], [[Hot Shounen Mom|mature]], [[Amazonian Beauty|muscular]], stacked [[Boobs of Steel|on front]], the back, and [[Hartman Hips|the sides]] and she wields [[BFS|a sword that's as big as her]].
== Card Games ==▼
* [[Player Archetypes|The "Timmy" demographic]] in ''[[Magic: The Gathering|Magic the Gathering]]'' is defined as caring first and foremost about massive creatures that can slam the opponent (or, in a broader sense, any spell with a huge, sweeping effect), and ''Magic'' sure as heck has no shortage. The classic "biggest and baddest" is [http://beta.gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=108920 Leviathan]; other notables include the devastating [http://beta.gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=43711 Dragon Tyrant], the unspeakably large [http://beta.gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=135250 Denizen of the Deep], and the majestic [http://beta.gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=175105 Godsire]. The single biggest, baddest, most ''monstrous'' monster in the whole game, though? The dread goddess [http://magiccards.info/rep/en/10.html Marit Lage], who is so powerful she can't even be summoned by normal means.▼
** Spoofed in the (deliberately silly and not tournament-legal) ''Unglued'' expansion set with the [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?id=9780 B.F.M. (Big Furry Monster)], a creature so big it doesn't even fit onto a single ''card''.▼
** Even more so now with the release of Rise of the Eldrazi, which feature [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=194908 some] [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=220553 of] [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=198171 the] [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=194911 largest] [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=193632 creatures] [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=193452 EVER] printed in the history of the game.▼
** The shard of Naya, the home of Godsire, was noted for its "big creatures matter" mechanic. There was even one card that would [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=180620 win you the game if you had a 20-power creature after you untapped at the beginning of your turn], [[Make My Monster Grow|as well as speeding your creatures on a path to such a size]].▼
== Comics ==▼
* ''[[FoxTrot]]'': Roger buys a four-foot tall cell phone from "Mobytel" ("I assume the "Moby" is short for mobile"). It turns out to not work out so well as both the ends are too far away to actually have a conversation.▼
* Parodied in ''[[Over the Hedge (comic strip)|Over the Hedge]]'' with a SUV:▼
{{quote|"How many humans fit into one of those?"▼
"Usually... one." }}▼
▲== Films ==
* [[The Master of Disguise]] had a major romantic subplot about Pistachio's love for Jennifer Baker ''despite'' her "tiny, butter bottom". Given the size of his mother, it looks like the Disguisey family's men think bigger is ''always'' Better, [[BBW|when it comes to women]], [[Fetish Fuel|especially their buttocks]].
* [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs|Dinosaurs]] (also [[Truth in Television]]):
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*** Interestingly, the Velociraptors in the first movie were ''much'' bigger than in reality (they were actually pretty much Deinonychus...) while the dilophosaur was ''much'' smaller. But it could spit poison, so...
* Death Stars in ''[[Star Wars]]''. According to [[The Other Wiki]], Death Star I had a diameter between 120 and 160 km. Death Star II was anywhere (depending on the source) from 160 to ''900''km! Granted, Death Star II had a better laser, but was there really any other reason for it to be so much larger?
** It probably says something that all of the Original Trilogy movies, along with ''Revenge of the Sith'', opened with a Star Destroyer, which is more than a kilometer and a half long. Other [[Incredibly Lame Pun|big]] contenders are the ''Executor'' (so big, it used ENGINES bigger than Star Destroyers), Ackbar's five-kilometer-long flagship, the three-kilometer Trade Federation ''Lucrehulk'' battleship, and the seven-hundred-meter ''Acclamator'' troop transport. And that's just the movies; the EU has things like [https://web.archive.org/web/20120617043424/http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/9/91/Maw.JPG the Maw Installation], seen in comparison to a prototype Death Star, Centerpoint Station, which was 300 kilometers long, and the [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/File:Galaxy_Gun_egwt.png Galaxy Gun].
** Parodied by ''Spaceball One'' in ''[[Spaceballs]]''.
* ''[[Godzilla]]'' is king of the monsters. Are ''you'' king of the monsters? No. You're ''too small''.
** To his credit, [[Fire Breather|Belloc]] is more open-minded about his successor.
* In [[Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure|Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey]] Bill and Ted were nervous about the Station twins knowing what they were doing. The twins did a [[Fusion Dance]], turning into Big Station. Suddenly there were no more worries. Apparently Big Station was more obviously a great scientist than the Station twins?
== Literature ==
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* Played completely straight by [[Bolo]]s, which are remarkably large, AI-guided tanks. Later marks mass more than most ''battleships''.
* John Keefauver's story "The Great Three-Month Super Supersonic Stack-Up of 1999" satirically depicted a near-future with planes so huge that they could be stacked up for ''weeks''. ("Six feet longer than ten football fields! Six feet wider than three football fields!")
== Live-Action TV ==
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''(Everyone protests desperately)''
'''Tori:''' Yeah, yeah, now you like my tiny fan, don'cha!? }}
== Music ==
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And I will walk through the front door!" }}
== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* ''[[FoxTrot]]'': Roger buys a four-foot tall cell phone from "Mobytel" ("I assume the "Moby" is short for mobile"). It turns out to not work out so well as both the ends are too far away to actually have a conversation.
▲* Parodied in ''[[Over the Hedge (comic strip)|Over the Hedge]]'' with a SUV:
▲{{quote|"How many humans fit into one of those?"
▲"Usually... one." }}
== Tabletop Games ==
=== Board Games ===
* This is the basic principle behind the design of most, if not all, weapons, vehicles, and equipment in ''[[Warhammer
** Also most, if not all, Orks.
* In the ''[[Star Wars]] Saga Edition'' RPG, there's a simple way to estimate the challenge level of any given starship. Is it a fighter? It's probably low-challenge. If it has a CL of 16 or higher, there's a 99% chance the vehicle in question can cause a nasty localised eclipse, followed by reducing the eclipsed area to ash with its [[Frickin' Laser Beams]].▼
** A fan-made, impossibly humongous ship apparently dubbed the Imperium "Ultra" Class Star Destroyer with all the fixin's inspired someone to write [http://crossproduct.net/~md/sdsd.txt a status report] concerning the maiden flight of the ''SDSD Freudian Nightmare'' and all the problems that would come with maintaining said impossibly huge ship. It's hilarious.▼
▲=== Card Games ===
▲* [[Player Archetypes|The "Timmy" demographic]] in ''[[Magic: The
▲** Spoofed in the (deliberately silly and not tournament-legal) ''Unglued'' expansion set with the [https://web.archive.org/web/20080529181024/http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?id=9780 B.F.M. (Big Furry Monster)], a creature so big it doesn't even fit onto a single ''card''.
▲** Even more so now with the release of Rise of the Eldrazi, which feature [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=194908 some] [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=220553 of] [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=198171 the] [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=194911 largest] [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=193632 creatures] [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=193452 EVER] printed in the history of the game.
▲** The shard of Naya, the home of Godsire, was noted for its "big creatures matter" mechanic. There was even one card that would [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=180620 win you the game if you had a 20-power creature after you untapped at the beginning of your turn], [[Make My Monster Grow|as well as speeding your creatures on a path to such a size]].
=== Tabletop RPG ===
▲* In the ''[[Star Wars]] Saga Edition'' RPG, there's a simple way to estimate the challenge level of any given starship. Is it a fighter? It's probably low-challenge. If it has a CL of 16 or higher, there's a 99% chance the vehicle in question can cause a nasty localised eclipse, followed by reducing the eclipsed area to ash with its [[Frickin' Laser Beams]].
▲** A fan-made, impossibly humongous ship apparently dubbed the Imperium "Ultra" Class Star Destroyer with all the fixin's inspired someone to write [https://web.archive.org/web/20160402192210/http://crossproduct.net/~md/sdsd.txt a status report] concerning the maiden flight of the ''SDSD Freudian Nightmare'' and all the problems that would come with maintaining said impossibly huge ship. It's hilarious.
== Video Games ==
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* ''[[Asuras Wrath (Video Game)|Asuras Wrath]]'' subverts this. The first of the Seven Deities, Wyzen, starts out as a big [[Fat Bastard]], and at each stage that Asura beats him, he draws upon more Mantra power to become bigger. He goes from being the size of a tank to about a hundred meters tall, and when Asura punts that form into space, he calls upon a huge amount of Mantra to transform into a ''planet-sized'' form. He then proceeds to crush Asura with an index finger the size of a small country. Asura, being ''[[Unstoppable Rage|Asura]]'', just gets pissed and punches Wyzen so hard that the force travelling up his arm makes him explode. Immediately afterward, the rest of the Seven Deities are shown as annoyed and scornful of Wyzen for wasting so much power because he was convinced that being bigger meant he was more powerful.
▲== Web Comics ==
* Played with in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]''. Schlock loses his [[BFG]], and is offered a new model which is much more powerful and doesn't need to warm up. On the downside, it is smaller, and doesn't make an ominous hum when warming up. Schlock manages to find another of the old model. To be fair, Schlock uses both the size and the ominous hum as much for intimidation as he uses the gun for blasting things. Although he does like blasting things.
* Aylee during one of her [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20070223 transformations] in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''.
* In ''[[The KAMics]]'' Gertrude said when she got her Buntline special [https://web.archive.org/web/20120710130244/http://www.drunkduck.com/The_KAMics/4828837/ with 16 inch barrel],
{{quote|The bigger it is the more it hurts!
uhhh...
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* In ''[[Girl Genius]]'' it seems to be the case, and certainly is a matter of much [[Hypocritical Humor]]. First we see Gilgamesh Wulfenbach pointing out the error of Dr. Beetle, who - being a small man - created one HUGE, impressive enforcer clank instead of a bunch of smaller and thus put all eggs in one easy to hit bin. Then the Castle Heterodyne [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080829 says] "All the Wulfenbach [[Mad Scientist|sparks]] are known for their oversized machinery, you know. I mean, just ''look'' at castle Wulfenbach. What ''exactly'' are we trying to ''say'', here?" But then, the Heterodynes also [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110420 rarely built ''anything'' small]... and the Castle itself is a huge aboveground building that extends deep down, and counting peripheral devices in its direct control (like the thorn hedge), sprawls ''well beyond the city walls''.
* In ''Dangerously Chloe'' it turns out that a succubus can be much more sensitive about the size of horns than [[A-Cup Angst|about measurements of other visible parts of her figure]]. Maybe because the horns themselves are [[Fantastic Arousal|rather sensitive]].
== Real Life ==
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