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A subset of [[Shapeshifting]]. Often times this is how the human protagonists are introduced to (and/or [[Trapped in Another World|imprisoned in]]) the [[Mouse World]].

 

 

If the characters are shrunk down far enough, they could embark on a [[Fantastic Voyage Plot]].

Contrast with [[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever]]. See also [[Shrink Ray]].

 

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* Happens in the ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)|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]].

== Film ==

* The most famous film examples are ''[[The Incredible Shrinking Man]]'' with Grant Williams and its [[Distaff Counterpart]] with Lily Tomlin.

** Both films were based on the novel by [[Richard Matheson]], who also wrote ''[[I Am Legend]]'' and scripted the two [[Kolchak the Night Stalker|Kolchak]] TV movies.

** As noted in [[Stephen King]]'s ''Danse Macabre'', Richard Matheson originally made the eponymous man shrink a constant rate of 1/7th of an inch per day rather than by a given proportion, resulting in the Fridge Logic of what happens when he gets to that height.

 

== Theme Parks ==

 

 

* The 'Mini' spell and debuff in most ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' installments, which induces a status where all physical attacks are reduced to [[Scratch Damage]] and defense is lowered.

* Minimize in the ''[[Pokémon]]'' games.

** It also cuts their mass (because the ''Mario'' games already [[Art Major Physics|laugh in the face of physics]]). It does ''not'' change the strength of jumps. These two facts allow Mario to vault through the air and fall much more slowly.

* In ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]] Chapter 4: The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood'', Guybrush uses one of the buttons on De Singe's Auto-Trepanation Helmet and gets shrunk a bit smaller than the size of a lab vole for a bit before growing back to normal size.

* ''[[Nightmare Ned]]'' did this where Ned was being tormented by a pair of [[Enfant Terrible|Enfant Terribles]].

* ''[[Re Boot]]'' did this several times. First for a [[Fantastic Voyage]], then twice more in games where everything but the main characters is scaled up to make them appear shrunk.

* The ''[[Alvin and The Chipmunks]]'' movie "Funny We Shrunk the Adults" is one where Dave and Miss Miller are shrunken by Simon's "matter compacting" ray. At the same time, the Chipmunks and some neighbor kids who they are trying to impress are wrecking the house with their rowdy playing and bringing in things like a circus, including the animals. In fact, it was the rowdy playing that made the shrink ray turn on and zap Dave in the first place.

* On an episode of ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'', the cast shrinks down to rescue one of Furrball's fleas from a vicious bedbug, but not without [[Lampshade Hanging]].

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