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This is the reason why [[Large and In Charge]] is more common among villains.
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For when this is taken [[Up To Eleven]], compare [[That's No Moon]], [[Genius Loci]] (assuming it's evil), and [[Colossus Climb]]
== Anime & Manga ==▼
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* In ''[[One Piece]]'', most of the evil guys tend to be veritable behemoths of muscle or fat, or at least very tall and imposing. Our heroes, except for Franky and Brook, are average sized.
* ''[[Bleach]]''. Almost all Soul Reapers are human size, while most hollows are larger than human size (some of them are a ''lot'' larger than human size.
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** In ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny]]'' the [[The Juggernaut|Destroy Gundam]] is put into action by Blue Cosmos, the coalition of racist groups behind the Atlantic Federation. An [[Expy]] of the aforementioned Psyco Gundam, the Destroy is a walking [[Weapon of Mass Destruction]] that burns its way across Eurasia before being halted in downtown Berlin.
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* [[Galactus]], Devourer of Worlds and ''[[Fantastic Four]]'' villain; [[Depending on the Writer]], his size varies anywhere from 50 feet to 100 feet, to the size of actual planets (often for dramatic effect on the last one), but he's a giant to ''any'' writer.
* Ego, the Living Planet, a Marvel villain who gained popularity from the movie ''[[Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2]]''. According to the most reliable source <ref> [[The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe]]</ref> the Living Planet has a diameter of 6779 km, making him about the size of Mars.
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Star Wars]]'' has Darth Vader, who stands over 2 meters. (though the good guys have Chewbacca, who's even taller) [[The Empire]] also has much larger war machines; the largest Rebel ship, the Mon Calamari cruiser, is absolutely dwarfed by the largest Imperial ship, the Death Star.
* Ego from the second ''[[Guardians of the Galaxy (film)|Guardians of the Galaxy]]'' movie is slightly smaller than his comic book counterpart, but is still easily the size of Earth's moon.
* ''[[Candyman]]''. The eponymous killer is a 6-foot-five-inch tall [[Scary Black Man]], with a [[Hook Hand|hook for a right hand]].
== [[Literature]] ==
* Sunday, from ''[[The Man Who Was Thursday]]'' is described as "too big to process." He's not more than eight feet tall, however, but his terrifyingly jolly personality can't possibly hurt...
* Gregor Clegane from ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', AKA "The Mountain that Rides", [[Fan Nickname|known to some fans]] as [[Complete Monster|"The Mountain that Rapes"]], possibly the worse ordinary human in the series, and also the largest.
* In ''[[Redwall]]'', Vermin are invariably larger than Redwallers, though badgers tower above all others (and are good guys).
* Most of the abominations detailed in the [[Cthulhu Mythos]]. The size of monsters like Azathoth, Shub-Niggurath, and Cthulhu itself vary depending on the author, but they're always giants, often the size of planets.
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* In ''[[Stargate]]'', bad guys always have big armies, big ships, big empires, and big egos.
* Pure Demons from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. According to Anya, these ancient fiends are much larger physically than typical demons. This is proven when Olvikan (the demon the Mayor assumes the form of in the [[Season Finale]]) finally appears - it's ''huge''.
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ==
== Tabletop Games ==▼
* [[Norse Mythology]]:
** The [[Arch Enemies]] of the Norse gods are the jotuns, frost giants. Their size varies, but they're always huge, some the size of mountains.
** The first jotun, Ymir, was so huge that when Odin and his brothers slew him, they [[Creation Myth|used his body to build the world]].
** The Midgard Serpent is so huge that it encircles the Earth and clasps its tail with its mouth.
** Its brother, the wolf known as Fenris (or Fenrir), is almost always depicted as gigantic too.
▲== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Most of the factions in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' and ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' are taller than humans: the [[Our Elves Are Better|Elves]] / [[Space Elves|Eldar]], Orcs / Orks, the forces of Chaos (especially Khornates), [[Lizard Folk|Lizardmen]], Kroot... An exception in ''40K'' is the Tau, who are shorter and less physically capable than humans (which is why they prefer to shoot their enemies from miles away) - but [[Black and Grey Morality|by the standards of the setting]], they tend to be a bit ''nicer'' than humans. The Skaven are also smaller but have far, ''far'' greater numbers... and ''definitely'' count as evil.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Ganon of ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' is always bigger than Link and Zelda combined. Even in his human form, he can be up to twice as tall as them.
** The fact that Ganon is an adult while Link and Zelda are children in most of the games could somewhat account for this.
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* M. Bison of ''[[Street Fighter]]'' is a man of '''very''' large stature.
* In the 2D ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' games, enemy sprites were always bigger than the player sprites.
* In ''[[Bayonetta]]'', the bosses are huge. In fact, as you go through the game, they get progressively bigger until the final boss is ''as big as a planet''.
* Think Bayonetta has it bad? In ''[[Asura's Wrath]]'', even the ''first'' boss is as big as a planet!
* In ''[[Super Mario]]'' Bowser's actual size [[Your Size May Vary| depends on the game]], but he's ''always'' bigger than Mario. Or most other characters.
* ''[[God of War]]'' is another franchise known for humungous bosses, which is ironic, seeing as Kratos himself is huge when compared to most humans, canonically 7 feet 6 inches tall. Pandora’s Guardian (a 20 foot tall undead, armored minotaur) in [[God of War (Video Game)| the original game]], Poseidon from ''[[God of War III]]'' (a giant about a hundred feet tall [[Elemental Embodiment| literally made of water]], mounted on a just-as-big three-headed sea monster made of stone and water), the [[Kraken]] from ''[[God of War II]]'' (ironically, ''not'' as big as the one in ''[[Clash of the Titans]]'', but about 150 feet long, give or take), the Hydra King from the original game relaunch (forget measuring this one, suffice to say it’s as big as the sailing vessel Kratos fights it on), the Colossus of Rhodes from the second game [[Meaningful Name| (naturally)]], Aegaeon the Hecatonchires (this boss is not only the size of a city, it ''is'' the city, a case where the boss and the level you fight it in are one and the same), and of course, Cronos from the third game, a practical living mountain and likely, relatively speaking, the most gigantic boss in video game history (what do you expect from a Titan?), whose [[Boss Battle]] combines the elements of a [[Colossus Climb]] ''and'' a [[Womb Level]].
** Ares, the [[Big Bad]] of the first game Zigzags the Trope; while he ''is'' a giant, Kratos fights him using magic that makes himself ''just'' as big.
** In the 2018 sequel series, the bosses are usually closer to Kratos' size, but Hræzlyr the Mountain Dragon is as big as, well, a dragon, probably a throwback to the giant bosses in the original series.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short "Bye-Bye Bluebeard", [[Vile Villain, Saccharine Show|the eponymous killer]] is a giant of a man, standing six feet eleven inches tall.
* Justified in the various versions of ''[[Transformers]]'', as most of the Decepticons tend to favor larger military vehicles for their alt-modes as opposed to the smaller civilian vehicles favored by most of the Autobots.
** One exception is [[Transformers (film)|the movies]], which in attempt to keep a realistic scale, lead protagonist Optimus Prime (whose alternate mode is a HUGE truck) to be taller than most Decepticons.
** Plus, Unicron - the [[Bigger Bad]] in most versions - is the size of a planet. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooWCY1BubSg Lampshaded here.]
* In ''[[Samurai Jack]]'', the hero's [[Arch Enemy]] Aku is a shapeshifter, but almost always bigger than Jack.
* In ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' , the heroes are children who fight evil adults, so this Trope is usually applied by default, except in the cases of child villains. And even then, some of them, like the Delightful Children, have adult-sized [[Mooks]].
* [[The Smurfs]] are ''really'' small, so pretty much every villain in the cartoon is bigger than they are. But then, so are most of their allies.
* ''[[Adventures of the Gummi Bears]]'' takes this a step further. Not only is the [[Big Bad]] (and most humans in general) bigger than the heroes, but the villains' Mooks are a group of ogres bigger than ''he'' is, which he is somehow able to keep in line.
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