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[[File:437930904242f8f41517z_991.jpg|link=The Incredible Shrinking Man
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Happens to Narancia in Part 5 of ''[[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure
* Happens in the ''[[
* [[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
* Happens only in the manga version of ''[[Busou Renkin]]'', when Tokiko is hit multiple times by Madoka's Bubble Cage.
* Also happens in ''[[
* Happens in one episode in the anime adaptation of ''[[Kochikame]]'' when the main character Ryotsu was shrunk by the wizard from Heaven. He goes through mishaps in the police box and later helped taking out criminals holding up hostages.
* Happens to the 5 main girls in ''[[Yes! Pretty Cure 5]] [[Oddly
* One episode of ''[[
* In one episode of the original ''[[
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** The Atom has also lampshaded some of the oddities of his powers. When questioned about how people can breathe when they're barely the size of a cell, he admits that he has no idea how and he just goes with it.
* Bumblebee from the ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' and ''[[Doom Patrol]]'' was accidently reduced to the size of a small toy. Unlike most shrinking superheroes, she has yet to find a way to regain her original size.
* In the [[
** Incorrect. While Kandorians would gain superpowers upon leaving the bottle's artificial Kryptonian environment, they wouldn't expand unless some kind of [[Applied Phlebotinum]] was used.
* In fact, many comic book characters have shrinking (or size-changing in general) as their primary superpower (i.e. Ant-Man, the Wasp...)
* This happens to [[Donald Duck]], Scrooge and the nephews (along with Scrooge's whole money bin) in several different comic books by [[Carl Barks]] and [[Don Rosa]]. One of these was also "adapted" into a ''[[
** One quasi-educational story from the early '60s had Donald take his nephews (through an uncannily prescient virtual-reality device) on a trip through the mundane everyday world while shrunk increasingly smaller to encounter phenomena more fantastic than any make-believe reality the nephews could think of.
* Happened to Bart in an early issue of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' comic book.
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* In ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4540557/1/bHuge_b_bSuccess_b Huge Success]'', [[Iron Man|Tony]] decided to look at Dr. Pym's pym particles without permission and ended up being 6 inches tall.
** Some form of shrinking happens in many of [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/225641/GirlX2 GirlX2's] stories, often due to "[[Lilliputians|Lilliputian]] Syndrome."
* In ''[[
** Actually, all of the humans in the chapter have been shrunk. The four manage to find a gun that will unshrink everyone.
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** 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.
** The Lily Tomlin vehicle ''The Incredible Shrinking Woman'' made her decreasing size, caused by exposure to too many household cleansers, food additives, and hygiene products, a parable about out-of-control consumerism.
* This was the basis for the plot of the live-action movie ''[[Honey
* In the [[Beatles]] movie ''[[
* In ''[[Dot And Keeto]]'', Dot goes to eat the root that lets her talk to animals so she can apologize to some ants her brother was tormenting, but she accidentally eats the root next to it, which makes her shrink down to the size of a bug (and able to talk to them). After trying to get the attention of her brother and mother, she goes on an adventure among the bugs until her friend Kangaroo shrinks down, too, and brings her some of the root that will make her the proper size again.
* "Fantastic Voyage" in which a submersible is shrunk to microscopic size to be injected into a comatose spy to laser away the clots that are killing him. This has been pointed out, more than once, leads to a stupid conclusion where the people abandon the ship and swim to safety, being extracted from the tear ducts before they return to normal size automatically. No mention is ever made of the sub growing to normal size and exploding the patient.
* "Phantom Planet" where an astronaut lands on a tiny planetoid and, as soon as he breathes their air, shrinks to six inches tall (without his clothing). He later grows back to normal by breathing the air in his spacesuit tank. On [[
== Literature ==
* Happens twice in ''[[
* ''The Incredible Adventures of Karik and Valya'' has two kids drinking some liquid and shrinking to insect size, then being whisked into nature by a dragonfly. Needless to say, the whole thing is ''very dangerous''.
* The British SF novel ''Cold War in a Country Garden''.
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== Live Action TV ==
* Happens in ''[[Power Rangers
* ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'' has one of her "magic diseases" where her guilt causes her to shrink.
* ''[[Family Matters]]'' did this once, too.
* In one episode of ''[[The Greatest American Hero]]'', Ralph ''gets another copy of the suit's manual'' from the original aliens - but shrinks himself while experimenting, gets scared by an ant, panics and goes back to normal size, leaving the manual shrunk... I guess they also gave him an [[Idiot Ball]] to go with the replacement manual.
* This was the premise of ''[[Sid and Marty Krofft Productions|Dr. Shrinker]]''.
* In ''[[
** The early serial "Planet of the Giants" featured the first Doctor and companions trying to stay alive in a typical suburban home after a TARDIS malfunction reduced them to the size of bugs.
** The First Doctor permanently crippled the TARDIS of the Meddling Monk by removing the "dimensional control" so the other Time Lord couldn't get back into his (brand new, more advanced) TARDIS; afterwards, the console room was too small for him to fit inside.
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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.
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[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]].
* On ''[[Misfits of Science]]'', seven-foot-tall Dr. Elvin Lincoln had been working on a treatment that would make him shorter; he overdid it a bit and wound up with the ability to make himself six inches tall at will.
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* The first half of the two-part ''[[Mork and Mindy]]'' episode "Mork In Wonderland" centers on Mork shrinking after taking a cold capsule (the explanation is that the capsule is supposed to shrink the nasal membranes in humans, but [[Bizarre Alien Biology|Orkans are entirely membrane]]).
* In ''[[Lois and Clark]]'', Clark got shrunk to 6 inches tall. Thankfully, he still has all of his powers.
* In the ''[[
* ''[[Sesame Street]]'' had a two-part story in which Big Bird was shrunk to about the size of a Twiddlebug.
* In the ''[[Wild Wild West]]'' episode "the Night of the Raven", Dr. Loveless shrinks James West and a Native American princess.
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== Theme Parks ==
* This is the basis for several attractions at [[Disney Theme Parks]]. A few include ''It's a Bug's Land'', a play area based on ''[[A Bug's Life
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* This happened in ''[[Snowboard Kids 2]]''. The main characters were shrunk down, turning Wendy's house into a snowboard track.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]: [[The Minish Cap]]'' uses this as a gameplay mechanic.
* This is the entire story of ''[[
* ''[[Ratchet and Clank Size Matters]]'' centers around a shrink ray.
* Appears in a level in ''[[Okami]]'' where the eponymous wolf is shrunk down by magic to the size of her companion, Issun, and has to dodge such mundane dangers as spiders and Japanese housewives with brooms.
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* 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.
* The Mini Mushroom in the ''[[
** 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.
* In ''[[
* One section in ''[[
* Happens a few times in World of Warcraft (although only slight effects), with [http://www.wowhead.com/quest=14388 this quest] being an exception: you're shrunk to the size of a ''rat''.
== [[Web Animation]] ==
* In ''[[Banana
== Webcomics ==
* In ''U.F.O.'', Queen Pamela's hostages are shrunk down to the size of small rodents and put in a gerbil cage.
* ''[[
* In ''[[Emergency Exit]]'', Saya accidentally gets shrunk by [http://eecomics.net/?strip_id=826 Eddie's shrink ray].
* Teeko from ''[[Chirault]]'' gets shrunk by an accidental spell from an unlicensed mage. Finding a way to return her to her former size seems to be a major plot point.
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* Some size warpers in the [[Whateley Universe]] can do this. Sizemax can either be a 30-foot giant or a couple inches high.
* [[Small Problem]] is a blog ostensibly written by Debby Small, who's 6½ inches tall.
* The [[
== Western Animation ==
* In the ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy|Ed Edd n Eddy]]'' music video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9cr4HvQmj8 ''The Incredible Shrinking Day''] (which isn't canon), Sarah makes a shrinking potion, spikes a pitcher of lemonade with it, and offers some to the Eds, who drank the concoction and shrunk so that Sarah can play with them. {{spoiler|It wears off after they hid from Sarah.}}
* Happened in one episode of ''[[
* Happened on ''[[
* Happened on ''[[Star Trek:
* ''[[
* In the ''[[
** Additionally, a ''[[
* This happened in the ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'' episode "Getting Antsy", where a crook was using a shrink-ray to loot the city using ants. Darkwing ends up getting zapped and reduced to the size of an ant for most of the episode and gets shrunk a second time near the end, where he ends up coming up with an unusual way of saving the day.
* ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (
** Finally both played straight and reversed in another episode, where Chinese big bad used shrinking ray to increase size (and luxury) of cars, and then import sell them. By the end of the episode, Rescue Rangers grow to the size of a human, and then back.
* In ''[[
* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' episode "Micro Management" where Jack shrunk Danny, Skulker, and accidentally, Dash down to size. Had the added bonus of Danny slowly losing his powers because of it, risking his [[Secret Identity]] to the local [[Jerk Jock]] as the two tried to make their way up with [[The Hunter]] in pursuit.
* The 1967 ''[[Fantastic Four]]'' cartoon took this to a whole new level, shrinking the heroes until they wound up in a subatomic universe, then shrinking them some more, making them tiny within ''that'' context.
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* An early episode of ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' had Timmy wishing to be small and [[Fantastic Voyage Plot|exploring Vicky's body.]]
** There's also an episode where he shrinks down to have a chat with his (not making this up) evil, undead, pet gerbil, only to discover that it's [[Ax Crazy]] and out for revenge.
** There's also the episode where Timmy wishes he could have one last adventure with his Crimson Chin doll, upon which Cosmo and Wanda shrink him down to toy size. Much of this episode is very reminiscint of the movie ''[[Honey
* ''Inch High, Private Eye'' was a 1970s series about a ''very'' short detective.
* There was an episode of the ''[[Mega Man (
* In the ''[[Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi]]'' episode "Small Stuff", our duo is shrunk after going through the dryer.
* Occurs several times on ''[[Captain Planet]]''.
* This is the fate of anyone who messes with Reducto on ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney
* One episode of ''[[The Venture Bros]]'' cartoon has a shrink-ray gun Dr. Venture designed being sold at his yard sale. A later episode has Venture and Dr. Orpheus squaring off and betting over whether science or magic was better, deciding on shrinking as a challenge. Orpheus's incantations only shrink furniture, and Venture's shrink-ray gun is defective...testing it on Billy Quizboy has disturbing results.
* The fairies in ''[[Winx Club]]'' who have earned their enchantix form can shrink into tiny versions of themselves (except for Bloom).
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* ''[[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.
* Happens to Applejack in the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* 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]].
* ''Micro Ventures'' from ''[[The Banana Splits]]''
* In an episode of ''[[Eek the Cat]]'' called "Honey, I Shrunk the Cat", both Eek and Sharky were accidentally shrunken down by Elmo the elk's shrinking machine. After a failed attempt to grow back to their normal sizes, Eek and Sharky put some astronaut suits on and go to a sick president's nostril and travel inside his head to get a raisin off his brain (despite growing a little bigger amount every single time). After Eek and Sharky remove the raisin, the president sneezes them out of his nose. They did grow back when they eventually fly out the window and crash into the ground.
* In the ''[[Princess Gwenevere and
* Happens in ''[[The Jetsons]]'' once. It's George who gets shrunk.
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