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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The heroes of ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' Part 5 use a turtle. Yes, a turtle. Its Stand ability, Mr. President, allows people to enter a separate space within its shell. It's got a fridge and a bathroom in there, too, something which the characters [[Lampshade Hanging|comment on]].
** It has a fridge, but no bathroom. If I remember correctly, they have to use that zipper ability to use a bathroom.
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** As are the Gateports in Mundus Magicus.
* Somewhat parodied in ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'', when they went over to Haruhi's house, or at least the dream before it. Haruhi in the dream was about to open a closet, and Tamaki tried to cheer up the rest of the group, and probably himself, by saying "Inside that closet must be an infinite space"
* ''[[Tenchi Muyo!
** Washuu's laboratory. It's accessed through a doorway under the stairs at Tenchi's house, but [[Word of God]] says the laboratory covers ''five planets''.
** Jurai's treeships generate pocket dimensions as living space for their crew.
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* The title [[Mobile Suit Human]] of ''[[Kemeko Deluxe]]''
* The Death Room in ''[[Soul Eater]]'', at least in the anime. It definitely has walls (which look like the sky complete with clouds, and can be broken) but the distance to them differs dramatically when Asura and Shinigami fight.
* [[Alien Geometries|Leliel]] from ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' at first appears to be a floating orb, quite large but not all bigger than Ramiel.
* In ''[[Howl's Moving Castle (anime)|Howl's Moving Castle]]'', the castle's door links to buildings that are sometimes smaller than the castle's size.
== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
▲== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Nextwave]]'' [[Lampshade Hanging|hung a lampshade]] on this with the Shockwave Rider, which is noted by the heroes that its interior is larger than its exterior. This is played with in the final issue, where "the thing that makes the ship bigger on the inside than it is on the outside" is destroyed and the heroes have to escape before they are crushed.
* Reed Richards of the [[Fantastic Four]] has often set up rooms like this. When the team was living in Pier 4, this was [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] with a comment about borrowing technology from his [[Doctor Who|weird doctor friend]].
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* In ''[[Fables]]'', the business office of Fabletown is bigger on the inside than out: it's indicated that nobody knows the full extent of the complex, although this is because the ''actual office'' is somewhere unknown and the building acts as a portal. {{spoiler|They recently lost the building, and those inside the office are still trapped}}.
** Fables also has the very important 'Witching Cloak' which can store much inside it's folds, one of it's many powers. (Careful; the weakness is it's still a cloak and can be yanked off like any other).
* In ''[[Runaways (comics)|Runaways]]'', the Steins do their mad science in a spacious laboratory that looks like a small shed on the outside. Nico suggests that it might be a hologram.
* [[Doctor Strange]] and his Sanctum Sanctorum. Of course, he's a wizard so...[[Justified Trope|you know]].
* ''[[Elf Quest]]''{{'}}s Palace of the High Ones may be bigger on the inside, though it's never stated explicitly.
** Also, in the ''Shards'' storyline, the "tallest tower" in Gromuhl Djun's fortress actually has the lowest elevation because there are more floors below ground.
* One of the comics about [[Cubitus]] shows the eponymous dog passing through several chambers of an opulent palace... and eventually emerging from his ordinary doghouse.
== [[Fairy Tales]] ==▼
▲== Fairy Tales ==
* In the 5th-8th century Slavic myth of the witch Baba Yaga, her tiny hut is magically, on the inside, like a great hall.
* One of the stories in ''[[Arabian Nights|A Thousand and one Nights]]'' has a tent like this.
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* In Japanese folktales, Kitsune can create realms, turning a hole under a floorboard into a small estate, and turn a small field into a kingdom.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* During the events of ''[[Drunkard's Walk|Drunkard's Walk V]]'', [[Ah! My Goddess|Skuld]] built three panniers (cargo cases) for Douglas Sangnoir's motorcycle with the same enchantments as [[w:Skíðblaðnir|Skidbladnir]] on them, giving them a combined storage space estimated at about 1500 cubic meters and described as equivalent to "a small barge".
* In the ''[[Worm]]/[[Luna Varga]]'' crossover ''[[Taylor Varga]]'', Family dimensional-folding makes this possible in all manner of containers. At one point, Taylor idly expands the basement of the Hebert home into a space sufficient to hold a baseball stadium.
* In the ''Taylor Varga'' sidestory ''[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/taylor-varga-worm-luna-varga.32119/post-19301630 Why Stop at the Moon?]'', when an international expedition to Mars figures out how to open a dome left there for them by the Family, they discover that it is ''vastly'' larger on the inside than it is on the outside.
* ''[[Desperately Seeking Ranma]]'': After its semi-sentient magical security system ends up with a surfeit of magical power after saving their lives, Ranma and Kasumi's apartment building gains a basement large enough to host a small but very real ''star''.
== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Star Wars]]'', the Millennium Falcon interior is significantly larger than the exterior, mostly in regards to headroom. Due to the "cramped" interior, this is seldom noticed by the fans, even when toy models blatantly reveal this discrepancy. Hence, it requires no actual explanation. The difference is most visible when you see the Falcon docked in the Death Star. Compare it to the nearby Stormtroopers. Then compare its size earlier when they are all gathered in the lounges, and then take into account all the other rooms in the Falcon that are seen only in ''The Empire Strikes Back''. The trope is compounded when you consider that the ship is supposed to be a freighter, with a lot of cargo capacity.
** [[Fridge Brilliance|That's it!]] The ship was made Bigger on the Inside to give it more storage space.
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* In the (still animated) beginning of ''[[Enchanted]]'', Giselle gets out of her coach in her wedding dress, and Nathaniel is run over by all the animals that were apparently in the coach with her (even though her dress is so big, it's hard to tell how she fit herself).
* The interior sets for the ''Discovery'' in ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' are 50% too large to fit into its spherical command module. This is surprising considering [[Stanley Kubrick]]'s reputation for perfectionism.
** In ''[[2010: The Year We Make Contact]]'', the ''Leonov''{{'}}s interior sets aren't even remotely the right shape to fit into its hull. Peter Hyams apparently wanted all of the rooms to be interconnected on the same level in order to film [[Walk and Talk]] shots.
* In ''[[Jurassic Park]]'', when Grant and Sattler enter their trailer, from the outside it's simply a camper that looks like it barely has enough headroom. Once inside, it's as big as a double-wide, and the ceiling extends a good 2–3 feet above their heads.
* In
* In "[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]" The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, the entire realm of Narnia is contained inside of a Wardrobe. (Technically this fits under "Literature" as well, since this was a book and a movie.)
** Narnia is another dimension, the wardrobe is just a way of getting there.
* In a lot of Hollywood Musicals, internal sets start off small but magically become bigger when there's an extended dance scene. One example is the cabin in ''[[Seven Brides for Seven Brothers]]'' which looks small and poky from the outside, much to Millie's dismay when she arrives with her new husband, Adam. Yet when she leads the brothers in the "Goin' Courtin'" dance, the main living room grows to barn-like proportions. This is subverted a little in the later external barn-raising dance scene when the barn in question only looks to be about
** This appears to be the case with the stage at the Pine Tree inn in ''[[White Christmas]]'' but it's actually an illusion caused by a removable proscenium arch.
* In the Korean film ''[[Hansel and Gretel (film)|Hansel and Gretel]]'', the attic of the house stretches on for miles.
*
== [[Literature]] ==▼
* [[Douglas Adams]]' ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' takes this to its extreme when Zarniwoop has an entire universe in his (ordinary size) office. It's just like the real one, except that Frogstar Fighters are a different color (
▲== Literature ==
▲* [[Douglas Adams]]' ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' takes this to its extreme when Zarniwoop has an entire universe in his (ordinary size) office. It's just like the real one, except that Frogstar Fighters are a different color ( {{spoiler|and it exists entirely for Zaphod's benefit}}).
** And during the reveal of that spoiler, we also find that Zaphod has been carrying around {{spoiler|the starship ''Heart of Gold''}} in his pocket, without even knowing it.
** Also, the planet Magrathea. On the inside, it's the size of a solar system, and they build planets in it.
** Is it really any wonder that Douglas Adams invokes this, considering he used to be a script editor or something similar for ''[[Doctor Who]]''?
* The protagonists of ''[[Myth Adventures]]'' lived for some time in what appears to be a small tent, but inside it's a spacious house. Because it really is the entrance to a house physically located in another dimension. The trouble comes when they open the back door and discover ''where'' it was built...
** This is a common practice for Devan architecture, as it's hard for a haggling merchant at the Bazaar to plead poormouth when there's an obvious fifty-room mansion behind the shop.
* In Greg Bear's ''[[The Way Series|Eon]]'', the fact that the seventh chamber aboard the ''Thistledown'' is Bigger on the Inside is proof that someone has finally understood the work of the female physicist protagonist.
* In Bulgakov's ''[[The Master and Margarita]]'', Woland's immense ballroom appeared behind the door of an ordinary Soviet apartment (which was previously shown to be perfectly normal); one of the characters says that this is easy to achieve when you are "familiar with the fifth dimension."
* Played for horror in ''[[House of Leaves]]'', in which the Navidsons' {{color|blue|house}} starts out precisely 1/4" larger on the inside. The scale of this difference is where a lot of the horror comes from- the tiny difference means that it almost feels like a mistake. They could be wrong, or crazy. Turns out they're wrong. {{spoiler|It's 5/16"}}.
** In many editions, the pages stick out a quarter inch past the edge of the cover. Apparently the book is also bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
* In [[Teresa Edgerton]]'s ''[[Celydonn|The Grail and the Ring]]'', Dame Ceinwen's cottage appears to be an ordinary one-room cottage from the outside, and even from the inside - except that you can never quite see the entire room from inside. When you explore the perimeter of the room, you find doors opening into other rooms, cupboards, and so on.
*
* The "stable" in ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]: The Last Battle'' is tiny on the outside, yet when the characters enter, it contains the whole of "Aslan's Country". As they travel further through the land, the arrive at a walled garden on a hill, but again, once they enter they find a whole country spread out before them; an even better version of the land they came through. It is implied that there might be an infinite number of such layers.
** The stable was unusual in this respect. Not everyone who entered found Aslan's Country - a party of dwarfs who entered it found only the very ordinary dark and grimy interior of a stable. Both alternatives coexist simultaneously, as the protagonists interact directly with the dwarfs despite perceiving a completely different world. This is perhaps more a case of [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]].
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** Also the Temple of Bel-Shamharoth in ''Colour of Magic'', and the Lancre Caves in ''Lords and Ladies''. The space inside the Dancers in ''Lords and Ladies'' hangs a lampshade on this, "The circle was a few yards across, it shouldn't appear to contain so much distance."
** Unseen University, aside from the Library, is said to be expanding constantly, especially its maze-like corridors.
**
* Several locations in ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'', mostly those which are [[Invisible to Normals]], are hidden in small spaces: Grimmauld Place, Platform 9¾, the tents the Weasleys use at the Quidditch World Cup... but this is literally because [[A Wizard Did It]].
** Hermione's tiny little beaded handbag in ''[[
** Arthur Weasley expands the inside of his Ford Anglia so the entire Weasley family and then some can fit inside comfortably.
*** The Ministry Cars from ''[[
** The ability to make a location "unplottable" (i.e. impossible to be included on a map) is an interesting case. The implication is that from a map-maker's point of view the world around the building contracts to fill the empty space and the building itself then resides on a plot of land with zero area. This is related to Grimmauld Place appearing out of nowhere in the films.
* In ''[[The Magicians]]'', many buildings are larger on the inside, such as the house that the Physical Kids hang out in. This is explained by [[A Wizard Did It|A Magician Did It]]
* [[The Lost Woods|Ryhope Wood]] in Robert Holdstock ''Mythago Wood'': the protagonist says he can run around it inside an hour, but when he tries to go through...Time also runs differently inside it.
*
* Dr. Morgenes's home/lab/pub in Tad Williams's ''[[Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn]]'' trilogy looks like a barracks from the outside, but inside seems just a '''little''' too big.
* Many buildings in the [[Nightside]] are like this, which is to be expected in a place where space is at a premium and so many people know magic.
* Subverted in ''[[Callahan's Crosstime Saloon]]''; the alien Squish's saucer is ''smaller'' on the inside than on the outside, since they haven't gotten the technology right.
* John Crowley's ''[[Little, Big]]'' : this trope (and the title of the book) refer to both the Edgewood house and Faerie being 'bigger in the inside' (a kind of
* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'': the Halls of the Undying are a lot bigger on the inside. The most obvious difference is a staircase leading upwards whereas the building doesn't have a tower.
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novels, the villain, Sabbath, turns up wearing a suit which is bigger on the inside. [[Paper-Thin Disguise|It functions surprisingly well as a disguise]], proving that although he's maybe twice the Doctor's size, he also just might have twice the Doctor's brainpower. Not only is it slimming, it allows him to unexpectedly pull out a gun.
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* The House of the Osugbo in ''[[Who Fears Death]]''.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* The TARDIS, "[[Buffy-Speak|up-and-downy]] stuff in a big blue box" from ''[[Doctor Who]]'' is the [[Trope Codifier]].
** It is such a recognisable example of this trope that the word 'Tardis' can actually be found in the dictionary, defined as 'something which appears to be much larger on the inside than on the outside'.
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*** Rory immediately deduces the inside is in another dimension, disappointing Eleven: "I like the bit when someone says 'It's bigger on the inside!' I always look forward to that."
*** Also averted when Thirteen's new <s>companions</s> friends first enter the TARDIS in "The Ghost Monument" -- they just stare in awe and make approving comments.
*** One of Clara's instances, upon seeing the interior for the first time, runs back outside, circles the police box, ducks back inside and declares enthusiastically, "It's ''smaller on the outside!''". The Doctor, who was waiting for the usual line, pulls a face and says, "Well, wasn't expecting ''that''."
** Don't forget the Doctor's [[Hammerspace|pockets.]]
*** In the [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]], it turns out [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane|he just tears the lining out of his pockets]].
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** The episode "The Doctor's Wife" lets us see more of the TARDIS for the first time in New Who, but that's not why its so notable for this particular trope. {{spoiler|The TARDIS, upon taking a human body, feels that humans- and the Doctor- are bigger on the inside, and she's able to overcome the force which has taken control of her Police Box self because he's so much ''smaller'' on the inside.}} It's a wonderful twist which shows this trope might not just be about space.
* The myth of Baba Yaga is parodied in ''[[The Mighty Boosh]]'' with Babu Yagu, aka The Hitcher, whose travel chest contains an entire zoo.
* The Pylons from the original ''[[Land of the Lost (TV series)|Land of the Lost]]''.
* The Foundation's mobile command Semi in ''[[Knight Rider]]'' was shown to be barely wider than KITT, who was the size of a standard 1982 Trans Am, while the car was pulling into or out of it. However, once in, there was enough room for the car, quite a bit of equipment, and even a picnic in one episode. It was wide enough for both of the car's doors to be wide open with room to spare.
* ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'': the time traveler's ship. Originally, [[What Could Have Been|the plan was for this episode to be an actual crossover with Doctor Who]], but copyright issues and thematic questions kept that from going past the "Hey, I've got an idea" stage.
** In ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'', the Shuttlecraft used a different model for the exterior than the interior. The interior set was big enough that the actors could walk around standing upright while in the exterior they could only stand hunched over, hence the reason they are always hunched over when they step out of the Shuttlecraft.
** Many holodeck-plots from ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' belie the apparent actual size of the holodeck, as the physical characters spread out so far within its simulated environment that they'd have to be walking through walls or on conveyor belts.
* The Egg (or Trans-Dimensional Navigation Module) in ''[[Galidor]]'' has several internal levels but certainly doesn't look like it from the outside.
* Oscar's trash can from ''[[Sesame Street]]'' is also depicted as huge on the inside.
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* ''[[Red Dwarf]]'''s ship-to-planet shuttle Starbug gained an implausibly large set of interiors when it became the show's home base in Series 6. This was worked into the plot in Series 7, when a paradox caused by an exploding time machine expands the shuttle's innards even further (by merging it with its future self from a mooted timeline). Among other features, the paradox-enhanced 'Bug has ''two miles'' of [[Air Vent Passageway|spacious service ducts]].
** The production team were aware of this and reduced the size of the cockpit windows on the Starbug model when they switched from physical props to CGI to compensate.
* And
* The Warehouse in ''[[Warehouse 13]]'' is huge on the outside, but once you're inside it becomes the Warehouse that never ends.
* In ''[[Engine Sentai Go-onger]]'', The Ginjiro-go has a large-sized HQ within.
* ''[[Full House]]'' lampshades the dynamics of the family's house in the last episode.
* The spaceship ''Jupiter 2'' from ''[[Lost in Space]]'' fits this trope through a case of [[They Just Didn't Care]]. In the original unaired pilot, it had only a single deck, and the external scale clues (view ports
* Galen's ship in ''[[Crusade]]'' looks no bigger than a standard shuttle. We are only shown a glimpse of the interior (when Gideon is rescued by Galen in a flashback), but it looks much roomier inside. Of course, given that this is a [[Magic From Technology|technomage]] ship, it makes sense (it's likely just an illusion).
* An early 2000s ''[[Playhouse Disney]]'' show called ''[[Out Of The Box]]'' took place in a house built out of several large cardboard boxes piled together, but inside it's a large room that could never be made out of a few boxes.
* While it's genuinely played for camp value, the Battletram in ''[[
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* [[Beetle Bailey|Mort Walker's]] comic strip ''Boner's Ark'' takes place on a boat that from the outside looks like a rowing boat with a deep hull and one tiny cabin. Since it houses dozens, possibly hundreds of [[Furry Comic|anthropomorphic animals]] (including one tyrannosaurus rex), it's obviously much bigger than that.
* ''[[Peanuts
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==▼
* The [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] ring seems to be this way as seen in the 2009 "Little People's Court" episode of ''[[WWE Raw]]'' where [[Triple H]] and [[Shawn Michaels]] went underneath the ring, only to find a corridor and a courtroom full of dwarves.▼
▲== Professional Wrestling ==
▲* The [[WWE]] ring seems to be this way as seen in the 2009 "Little People's Court" episode of ''[[WWE Raw]]'' where [[Triple H]] and [[Shawn Michaels]] went underneath the ring, only to find a corridor and a courtroom full of dwarves.
** It might also explain the various times [[The Undertaker]] and [[Kane (wrestling)|Kane]] have creeped their way through the ring, dragging their victims through the hole and into the fires of Hell.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==▼
* ''[[GURPS
▲== Tabletop Games ==
▲* ''[[GURPS]]: Spaceships'' has a ship designed like this as a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Doctor Who]]''.
* This is the stated explanation for the Bag of Holding and the Portable Hole in ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''. In an attempt to prevent game exploits, sticking one inside the other tears open the portal that leads to the Hammerspace and sucks everything in. Though some more [[Rule of Cool|enterprising]] players have used this as weapons, to the chagrin of many DMs.
** One ''Dragon'' write-up of Baba Yaga's hut depicted the interior this way. Justified by it being home to one of mythology's most formidable witches.
* Most transport vehicles in ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]''. No way
** I did a test. You can't even fit
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Closely related to [[Units Not to Scale]], pretty much every game that has ever let you enter a building displays Bigger on the Inside. Controller and engine limitations require that building internals in the vast majority of games need to be scaled up to ludicrous proportions in order to make the game playable. Buildings that look about correct scale on the outside normally have to be three or four times larger on the inside. Among many developers this is a level design principle known as [http://designreboot.blogspot.com/2009/10/level-design-primer-keep-it-wide.html 'keep it wide'].
** ''[[Pokémon]]'' is a prime example. If you can go inside it, expect it to be a lot larger inside unless its outward appearance is intended to be imposing (such as a department store.) [[Up to Eleven|Some of the gyms even have interiors bigger than the towns they're in.]]
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** The Comet Observatory domes from ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''.
* Some parts of ''[[Unreal]]'' suffer this, more or less.
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
** And again in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages|The Legend of Zelda Oracle Games]]''.
** The Deku Tree seems bigger inside as well, but still resembles a tree, somewhat.
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** Possibly the ultimately example is Miko's pad, Senkai. It' an infinite amount of space contained in ''crack''.
* Odd as it may seem, ''[[EVE Online]]''. The containers (or "cans") that you buy on the market allow you to store, in the smallest can, 120 cubic meters (m3) worth of stuff, in an item that only takes up 100! The jettisoned containers ("jet cans") also count, as they can hold 27,500 m3 worth of items, from a shuttle that only has a 10 m3 cargohold (at worst, other ships (with the exception of the 0 m3 pod) have a 100 m3 cargohold, minimum)! (Even positing that the jet cans are collapsible, like cardboard boxes, 27,500 m3 is roughly equivalent to the capacity of the largest of the industrial haulers, ''heavily'' modified for additional cargo space.) Partly, this is [[Hand Wave]]d by freight containers having a "compression field" (for the same reason, you can't put livestock, passengers and some foods in them).
* ''[[Halo]]'': The outside model for the ''Pillar of Autumn'' is smaller than the (inferred) distance the player has to travel in the final level. [http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/sloftus_poaconundrum/
** This trope is also inverted if you consider the level where you have to run from the bridge in the very front of the bow to the engine room in the stern. By that level the ''Pillar of Autumn'' is actually considerably SMALLER then the outside model.
** The ''Spirit Of Fire'' from ''Halo Wars'', considering the amount of resources and forces it sends down.
*** The Elephant too for that matter. you can train 40 soldiers out of it. despite the fact it looks like it can hold no more than 20, maybe 30. and even that's pushing it.
* Same thing with the Ishimura in ''[[Dead Space (video game)|Dead Space]]''. When the shuttle approaches the ship in the games opening, the model is much smaller than it is supposed to be, and probably too small to house all the games levels.
* There's an interesting psychological employment of this trope in ''[[EarthBound]]''. The Tenda of the Lost Underworld believe they have built a cage around the dinosaurs there, even though they are the ones actually inside said cage. Therefore, to them, the cage is bigger on the inside than the outside.
** ''[[EarthBound]]'' itself, as well as predecessor ''[[MOTHER]]'', also played this trope straight in the usual sense. Its sequel ''[[Mother 3]]'', however, did a pretty good job of averting it, or at least making it not particularly egregious.
* In ''[[God of War (series)|God of War
* Every [[Eastern RPG]] ever.
** Every single hut and shed. Sometimes inverted with castles.
** Many games handle this rather believably if you think of the town exteriors as on a condensed scale as compared to the house interiors, or approximately 50% of full scale—if the houses are truly as large on the outside as on the inside, the exteriors would have to be twice as large as they actually appear in-game. You notice these things if you ever try to recreate your favorite [[Eastern RPG]] town models in an environment like ''[[Minecraft]]''.
* ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]'' did this a lot.
** Most notable is K. Lumsy's island. On the outside, it's small enough that one could probably jump on top of it. On the inside, the ceiling is probably at least 20 to 30 times the height of the Kongs. Same goes for the diameter.
** ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'' does this a lot as well. Most notably inside the circus tent in Witchyworld in Tooie.
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** Played Straight with the Bilgewater Cartel's Town-In-A-Box, which is a box of about 1 foot by 1 foot by 1 foot, but is able to contain several buildings, multiple people, and according to quest-text, a dock and an oil rig.
* In ''[[XIII]]'', the submarine is absurdly large on the inside and tiny on the outside.
* The barns in the online game ''[[Farmville]]''. If one chooses, they are capable of holding dozens of entire buildings inside them, each much, much larger then the actual barn itself.
* ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'' is pretty common with this. A house looks like a pathetic slum on the outside. You send somebody in (usually to loot the place) and it turns out on the inside it's got a dozen rooms and, while still being a pathetic slum, it's a pathetic slum about the size of a small mansion.
* The ''Wake of the Ravager'' series had magic tents that were explicitly bigger on the inside.
* The trucks in the [[NES]] version of ''[[Metal Gear]]''. Go inside, and instantly you notice [[Mythology Gag|the scale have started to move]].
* Inverted for laughs in the tie-in adventure game for ''[[Callahan's Crosstime Saloon|Callahans Crosstime Saloon]]''. In one stage you have to hijack a friendly alien's saucer. Unfortunately it's ''smaller'' on the inside than the outside, because "his race hasn't got the technology straightened out yet."
* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' games, it applies to a degree. While the cities are to scale (and in case of ''[[The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind|Morrowind]]'' on the overworld in their entirety) the houses inside the cities are usually bigger on the inside.
** The Dwemer Lockbox in Septimus' Outpost is totally this. The inside of the cube is at least twice as big as the outside. Even the tunnel leading into the cube is longer than the cube itself!
* Averted in the ''[[Gothic]]'' games. Every city and house interior is part of the overworld and exactly the same size on the inside as on the outside.
* ''[[Legacy of Kain|Blood Omen:
* Subtler example: The map Well in ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' has bases that are bigger on the inside, though not very much. There's no special trick of non-linear geometry going on (the engine doesn't even support such a thing); they just hid part of the interior behind a [[Skybox]] and projected the rest of the building's façade onto it.
* Speaking of that engine, ''[[Portal 2]]'' has an even more subtle but much more high-tech example: they developed [https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Linked_portal_door a method] for seamlessly connecting nonadjacent areas in a level, [[Mundane Utility|purely to simplify the development process]]. When the game was being finished up, they replaced all of these links with physically-connected areas except one, a room that is imperceptibly bigger on the inside.
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* Ships in the ''[[X (video game)|X-Universe]]'' series use subspace compression technology to make the cargo bay bigger. This means that an M5 scoutship not much bigger than a modern F-16 can carry at least a dozen people in a space roughly the size of a refrigerator. The process, incidentally, is fatal to lifeforms unless an additional life-support package is installed, and it remains rather unpleasant to undergo.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[The Law of Purple]]'' has Red's 'magic wardrobe', which has six floors; they include such things as a weight room, large, fun devices from various planets, a teleporter, and an Olympic-sized swimming pool. Red's renting the fifth floor out to a friend of his.▼
▲* ''The Law of Purple'' has Red's 'magic wardrobe', which has six floors; they include such things as a weight room, large, fun devices from various planets, a teleporter, and an Olympic-sized swimming pool. Red's renting the fifth floor out to a friend of his.
* ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' used a spell for this [https://web.archive.org/web/20130615011531/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2003-04-29 early on].
* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]],'' Viceroy's Spire on the dragon planet Butane is bigger inside than out. Molly describes it as "All [[A Wrinkle in Time|tesseracty]] and [[Doctor Who|Whovian!"]]
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* In ''[[Finder's Keepers]]'', we have [http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/6143/20090331.jpg Morlock's store]. Among other things, it has a sign that reads: "Morlock "[[Lampshade Hanging|It's bigger on the inside."]]"
* ''[[Keychain of Creation]]'' has a wagon that works like this, because Misho knows [http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0109.html magic science].
* The Ambis spaceships in ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130719183412/http://www.drunkduck.com/Jix/ Jix]'' fit this trope.
** Possibly because the artist has no idea what the dimensions
* The hospital in ''[[Superego]]'' is heavily implied to be this, along with [[Alien Geometries|other]] [[Genius Loci|unsettling location]] [[Eldritch Location|tropes]].
* ''[[Hello With Cheese]]'' has a timeline for such objects -- [https://web.archive.org/web/20130616074707/http://www.dernwerks.com/HWC/?p=1623 here] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20140405090827/http://www.dernwerks.com/HWC/?p=1673 here].
* In ''Mountain Time'', it is implied that this is a trait of an [https://web.archive.org/web/20140405090745/http://mountaincomics.com/2012/01/02/mountain-time-318/ ordinary human stomach].
* ''Sanity Circus'' had Bee's "packing spell"… [https://www.sanitycircus.com/sanity-circus/chapter-7-page-4 when it runs past its sell-by date], [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* ''[[Use Sword on Monster]]'' has [https://www.useswordonmonster.com/?comic=2013-07-26 IBOTI bags].
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[Whateley Universe|Whateley Academy]] has a number of mutants who can create such spaces/items. Moebius sells bat-belts with pockets that are larger on the inside, and it's Thuban's hidden power. Some students suspect Generator of being able to do this, but she's actually faking it with a variety of effects - despite owning a genuine TARDIS-purse that Thuban gave her.
* '''[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-915 M][http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-416 u][http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-455 l][http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-947 t][http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-100 i][http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-167 p][http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-850 l][http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-883 e]''' ''[[SCP Foundation]]'' objects have this property, and then there's [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-184 SCP-184], which makes normal structures into [[Clown Car Base]]s.
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* According to [http://community.910cmx.com/index.php?showtopic=8494&st=80&p=347582&entry347582 one]{{Dead link}} [[Epileptic Trees|fan theory]], [[The Lord of the Rings|hobbit]]s' stomachs. That's how they out-eat everyone else.
* The mansion of mystic hero Doctor Ka, from the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'', has much, much more floor-space than its exterior would suggest. He needs the extra space to contain the angry ghosts...
* In ''[[Blue Yonder]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20150920161658/http://www.blueyondercomic.net/comics/1190170/blue-yonder-chapter-1-page-11/ Jared thinks the building might be this -- he has some trouble accepting that it's just an apartment building.]
* Nella must have infused [[The Nostalgia Chick]]'s fridge with TARDIS powers before she turned evil, 'cos the inside of that thing is huge.
** Doctor Tease actually gets blamed for it.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
* In what is probably a ''[[Peanuts]]'' reference, [[Scooby
▲== Western Animation ==
▲* In what is probably a [[Peanuts]] reference, [[Scooby Doo|Scooby Doo's]] doghouse in ''A Pup Named Scooby-Doo'' looks like Snoopy's doghouse on the outside, but is an opulent mansion on the inside.
* The goldfish-bowl castle in ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]''.
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** The Planet Express ship and the building that houses it tend to have larger interiors if the plot demands.
** Bender's torso is often bigger on the inside, as the plot or [[Rule of Funny|gag]] requires
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* In ''[[Planet Sheen]]'': "It's a lot roomier in here than it looks from the outside. Some would even argue that it's impossible."
* The Clubhouse in ''[[Monster Buster Club]]''. Decrepit childhood hangout on the outside, freakin' [[Area 51]] on the inside.
▲* The Beatles' ''Yellow Submarine'' has the band living in a place in Liverpool that's a grim little building outside, and bigger and more imposing than Versailles inside. The eponymous sub is similarly cavernous.
* In an episode of ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'', Ms. Frizzle turned the bus into a Suppose-O-Tron, but it seemed to retain its regular form. Then she led the class inside to reveal it now had a mammoth interior housing a gigantic laboratory.
* In ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'', the Kanker Sister's trailer looks like a normal trailer on the outside, but inside it's a full two-story house, with staircase, large bathroom, and ginormous living room to boot.
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* Sharky's doghouse from ''[[Eek! The Cat]]''; on the outside it looks like a regular doghouse, but on the inside it's a mansion.
* The title nightclub of Disney's ''[[House of Mouse]]''. What actually gave this away was the fact that in the show's opening credits, one can easily tell that [[Fun and Fancy Free|Willie the Giant]] is actually the same height as the building's exterior, but when we see the main dining area, one can tell that Willie can actually fit inside perfectly, and that the House of Mouse not only has a huge seating capacity—enough that (almost) ''every single'' animated Disney character can all fit inside the building at the same time—but also an ''extremely'' high ceiling just so even [[Incredibly Lame Pun|giant]] characters can fit inside as well. And when the [[Scenery Porn|Prop Room]] comes into play, things get a ''whole lot complicated...''
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': The Simpsons
* Bubbie from ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]]''. She's blue and bigger on the inside.
▲* The passenger planes from [[Cars|''Cars 2'']].
* [[Donald Duck]]'s chalet (which for some reason resembled [[Adolf Hitler|der Fuehrer's]] [[Title Drop|face]]) in ''[[Der Fuehrer's Face]]''. This is most noticable during the scene where a Nazi marching band can be seen plowing into said chalet and immediately dragging Donald to the weapons factory to perform hard labor.
* ''[[Transformers Generation 1
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Cities, towns, houses and stuff actually LOOK the smaller the more far you are. It makes this (YMMV) [[Truth in Television]]
* Many Disneyland rides, especially the Haunted Mansion. The parks get around this issue by use of back lots hidden from public view, or making the rides partially underground.
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