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{{quote|"... [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|What did you expect?]] [[Lampshade Hanging|He wasn't going to get smaller!]]"|'''Lothor''', ''[[Power Rangers Ninja Storm]]''}}
 
The villain grows to an enormous size for the very definitely final battle. No, he doesn't go and get mutated into a terrifying [[One -Winged Angel]] form, but simply becomes an absolutely huge version of himself, pretty much the [[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever|attack of the 50-foot villain]].
 
In some cases, this goes with a villain comeback after an [[Disney Villain Death|assumed death]] by dangerous substance or fall, or [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|getting hit with a bunch of energy beams and "exploding"]]. There is also a pretty good chance the villain's castle or base will be nearly, if not completely destroyed when the villain does this and in certain funny usages of this, the villain or [[Monster of the Week]] will realise the unfortunate consequences of both the enormous size and the misfortune of standing on a piece of flooring that's by far too weak to support him.
 
Compare [[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever]], [[Miracle-Gro Monster]], [[One -Winged Angel]], [[Rent a -A-Zilla]].
 
Please try to only list examples where the villain's increase in size is the only change to his appearance, since most One-Winged Angel forms by definition are usually larger than the original character.
 
Not a [[Double Entendre]]. [[Rule Thirty Four34|Usually]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
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* In ''[[Dragon Ball (Manga)|Dragon Ball]]'', Piccolo Junior did this during his big fight with Goku near the end of the original series. It was Goku who goaded him into doing it, so he can jump down his throat and retrieve the jar holding Kami.
* ''[[Mazinger Z (Anime)|Mazinger Z]]:'' In episode 12, [[The Dragon|Baron Ashura]] used a size-changing ray to turn a tiny robot into a giant [[Robeast]] -Bicong O9-. That ray had been invented by [[Big Bad]] Dr. Hell, who previously tested it with Ashura himself/herself, briefly transforming it into a giant. Throughout the series, Hell used more Mechanical Beasts could grow their size.
** And in ''[[Great Mazinger (Anime)|Great Mazinger]]'' one of the [[Co -Dragons]] -Marquis Janus- could change sizes, too.
 
 
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** It's become such a cliche that in ''[[Samurai Sentai Shinkenger]]'', the Red Ranger nonchalantly tells the others ''in the first episode'' that the monster's going to revive and grow after its defeat. Sure enough, the monster does so, and Shinken Red doesn't even bat an eye before summoning his [[Humongous Mecha]] to dispatch it again.
*** Not only that, the process is ''automatic''. All Ayakashi have two lives: whenever a human-sized Ayakashi dies, it's immediately reincarnated as a giant. Shinken Red knew this already, having fought them longer than the others.
*** The ''Shinkenger'' crossover in ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]'' averts this by virtue of [[Story -Breaker Team -Up]], though: When the Ayakashi Chinomanako {{spoiler|stole Daiki's Diendriver and transformed into a corrupt version of Kamen Rider Diend}}, his biology was somehow altered, meaning that it now had only one human-sized life. Really though, this was done mainly because [[Kamen Rider|Kamen Riders]] don't have [[Humongous Mecha]]. <ref>However, there are Kamen Riders who face giant threats more often than others, though not [[Once an Episode]]. Take [[Kamen Rider J]] and [[Kamen Rider Hibiki]]. The former makes himself grow whereas the latter, in spite of the size of his enemies, '''doesn't'''. [[Kamen Rider Den-O]], [[Kamen Rider Kiva]], [[Kamen Rider Double]] fight giant monsters semi-regularly, using their [[Cool Train]], dragon castle, bike, respectively. [[Kamen Rider OOO]] often doesn't ''need'' such things to deal with giant threats, taking out the first with a sword slash in finishing mode. It's too bad we ''didn't'' get to see Decade show the Rangers that you don't need giant robots to deal with giant beasties.</ref>
*** Speaking of ''Decade'', {{spoiler|Diend does this to Decade<ref>Kinda; it's not that Decade grows per se, it's that Diend used a Final Form Ride to fuse Decade with the giant [[Kamen Rider J]] into a humongous Decade</ref>}} in ''All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker'' as the final trump card against [[Kamen Rider X|King Dark]], the last man standing of [[Legion of Doom|Dai-Shocker]] after its leaders all went kablooie.
** In ''[[Power Rangers Jungle Fury]],'' growing is a ''martial arts technique.'' Monsters are able to do it at will. The Rangers, on the other hand, basically make mecha out of their [[Ki Attacks]].
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* In the ''[[Touhou Project]]'' fighter ''Immaterial and Missing Power'', final boss Ibuki Suika does this as a function of one of her declared attacks "Second Card [Giant Oni on the Scroll]." Her power is control of density <ref>Presumably by increasing volume and increasing density</ref> so it only makes sense that she can do this.
** in a ''Touhou'' imageboard, there was once a discussion over the implications of her abilities, one of them being the possibility that Suika, while in her mist form, could be inhaled; another being that, if she doesn't have a limit to how big she can become, she would be one of the series' fastest characters (despite herself already having impressive agility, according to tengu reporter Aya Shameimaru, who claims to be the fastest character in [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink|Gensokyo]], the game's setting), with her smallest moves surpassing by far the speed of light; the last of them being, as a joke reply to who would be the most powerful character in the series, one poster mentioned her scale-increasing ability, to which someone else replied saying that "n times zero is still zero"
** [[Marionette Master|Alice Margatroid]] pulls off a more literal example of this trope at the end of Cirno's scenario in ''Hisoutensoku''. After some typical spell cards attacks, she causes two of her helper Shanghai dolls to grow twice as big as Cirno and fire [[Frickin' Laser Beams|wide lasers]]. Her last attack then causes a single Shanghai doll to [[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever|grow as big as her house, taller than the screen height]] and arm it with swords. The swords eventually start shooting [[Frickin' Laser Beams|lasers]] themselves.
* After each boss battle in ''[[Ape Escape (Video Game)|Ape Escape]] 2'', you would capture the boss, except for {{spoiler|Yellow Monkey, who just ran away. Later, The Big Bad has his scary speech interupted by a banana that fell on his head. Looking up, he sees Yellow Monkey, now gigantic, who you have to fight.}}
* In many of the ''[[Mega Man X]]'' games, the [[Big Bad]] Sigma. Each game ends with you facing off against his [[Sequential Boss|multiple forms]]. His last form is almost always a large robotic body that fills up most of the screen.
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* At the end of ''[[Hexen]] II'', you wail away on [[Big Bad]] Eidolon for a while until he calls upon his Chaos Sphere and triples in height.
* The final boss of ''[[Purple]]'' grows into a humongous [[Background Boss]] after you hurt him enough.
* The [[Bigfoot Sasquatch and Yeti|Abominable Snowbug]] from ''[[Bug! (Video Game)|Bug]]!'' does this as a [[Desperation Attack]]- it roars while beating its chest and flexing all the muscles in its body, growing to twice its size. Unfortunately for him, his [[Hitbox Dissonance|hitbox stayed the same]], so Bug could effortlessly jump on him like he could before.
* {{spoiler|[[Kirby]]}} in ''[[Abobos Big Adventure (Video Game)|Abobos Big Adventure]]''.
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has Prince Kael'thas who, after reaching about half health, will start going mad with power, shattering the giant windows behind him and about doubling in size.
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