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Depending on how the shrinking works, they may or may not get their clothes to shrink with them--resulting in [[Empty Piles of Clothing]] or something similar.
Contrast with [[Attack of the 50
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* Happens in the ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' TV episode where Sakura is shrunk by the Little card.
* [[Idiot Hero|Hiroshi]] from ''[[Hell Teacher Nube]]'' wakes up one day to find himself no larger than a mouse. Of course, the reality of the situation is [[Artificial Human|stranger]] [[Cloning Blues|still]].
* [[Hime-chan no Ribon|Himeko Nonohara]] gains the ability to do both this and [[Attack of the 50
* Happens only in the manga version of ''[[Busou Renkin]]'', when Tokiko is hit multiple times by Madoka's Bubble Cage.
* Also happens in ''[[Ghost Sweeper Mikami]]'', when the eponymous [[Action Girl]] is hit by a dart from a spirit and in few hours she's shrunk to the size of a Barbie doll. She and her assistants must find the culprit and exorcise him, lest she will keep shrinking and disappear.
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* The ''[[Fantastic Four]]'' found themselves in a variant situation when they are captured by Doctor Doom and placed in a machine where their consciousnesses were transferred into miniature duplicates of themselves in a tiny simulation of a town called Liddleville. Eventually, they break out, manage to defeat Doom in their mini-versions and restore their consciousnesses to their real bodies.
* In the Marvel Universe in general, anyone who shrinks below a certain limit (apparantly somewhere between cellular size and molecular size) shifts into a "microverse" - the theory is that a shrinking person is actually displacng their mass extradimensionally, and when 99.99999999999999% is over there, the rest (and consciousness) follows. Among the notable inhabitants of microverses are Psycho Man, Jarella (a lover of [[The Hulk]] for a while), and the (now out of continuity) [[Micronauts]].
* Colossal Boy has this power in the 2004 relaunch of ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (
** More traditionally, Legion regular Shrinking Violet, who comes from the planet of Imsk where everyone has shrinking powers.
* The graphic novel ''In the Small'' features this happening to every human on Earth due to a mysterious blue flash. Shrunken, terrorized by animals and unable to use most technology, they need to rebuild everything in miniature.
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*** In "Carnival of Monsters" the Third Doctor accidentally landed the TARDIS inside a "compression field", where the people on the outside were giants in comparison. Anything removed from the compression field returned to normal size within a few seconds. (The first thing so removed was the TARDIS, because it was interfering with the compression field. A giant hand reached in and picked it up.)
*** In "The Pirate Planet", the Fourth Doctor encountered a bad guy who kept the shrunken remains of planets he'd destroyed as trophies.
* ''[[Land of the Giants]]'' was a variation on this trope; while the main characters didn't shrink, they found themselves [[In a World]] of [[Attack of the 50
* ''[[Farscape]]'' "I Shrink Therefore I Am". The crew are shrunk by bounty hunters to make them easier to transport and control. Sikozu immediately starts listing all the reasons why this is impossible (their brains should be too simple to function, and they shouldn't be able to breathe normal-sized air molecules) until Rygel tells her to just [[MST3K Mantra|shut up and accept that the impossible has happened.]] The episode ends with a fight between Crichton and the [[Villain of the Week]], with each trying to shrink the other and resize themselves. Needless to say, someone ends up getting squashed nastily.
* ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'' episode "One Little Ship": A runabout is sent to study a [[Negative Space Wedgie]] whose shrinking effect is already known (the fact that the explorers will be shrunk is a matter of great amusement to those staying behind). Unfortunately the Defiant is captured by Jem'Hadar and the now miniscule explorers must help the crew take back the ship. One scene has Bashir and O'Brien having to exit the runabout to alter a circuit -- because they can't breathe the full-sized air molecules outside, they beam a bubble of the runabout's air inside the circuit's casing. The episode ends with [[Odd Friendship|Odo and Quark]] pulling a rare practical joke on Bashir and O'Brien, by pretending they haven't "quite" returned to [[One Head Taller|full size]].
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