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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Pokémon]]'' has Solosis and its evolutions, all of which are giant cells. There's also Deoxys, a giant, humanoid space-virus.
* Most [[Mushishi|mushi]] are pretty much giant ''magical'' microbes.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In the [[Don Rosa]] ''[[Scrooge McDuck]]'' story "The Incredible Shrinking Tightwad", Scrooge and Donald are eventually shrunk down to microscopic size due to the effects of a malfunctioning shrinking ray, and are menaced by a horde of microbes.
* In a ''[[Goofy|Super Goof]]'' story, a villain used a ray gun to enlarge animals. In the final battle, Super Goof was pitted against a van-sized amoeba.
== [[Film]] -- Live-Action ==
* ''[[Evolution (film)|Evolution]]'' used a giant microbe. Technically, it's an amoeba...
* The B-Movie ''The Flesh Eaters'' features the titular micro-organisms joining together to become one large creature.
* ''[[Star Trek III: The Search For Spock]]'' has a set of microbes that get supersized thanks to the Genesis Effect. Later, they get so big that Captain Kruge gets to have a fight with one of them!
* In ''[[Fantastic Voyage]]'', the
== [[Literature]] ==
* In some ''[[Choose Your Own Adventure]]'' books that involved some shrink-ray device, a few bad endings had microbes (e.g. paramecium, or white blood cells) attach themselves to a object which returns to normal size. In the case of a amoeba, it took Kentucky for breakfast, then [[You Fail Geography Forever|Lousiana]] for lunch. Even at their normal microscopic size, they look very large.
* The oldest known example of this trope dates back to a
* The Belgian sci-fi/horror book ''La sortie est au fond de l'espace'' by Sternberg starts like this. All the microbes start growing, making the Earth uninhabitable in a series of scenes between horror and [[Black Comedy]]. For the survivors who fled in a spaceship, [[It Got Worse]].
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In an episode of ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'', the Enterprise crew fight a space amoeba at least as big as a planet.
** There is another episode that involves [[Puppeteer Parasite]]s that are described as single cells that act as a [[Hive Mind]].
* An episode of ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' has the crew dealing with [[You Fail Biology Forever|Giant Basketball-sized flying viruses]].
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''Germ enlarger, seemed like a good plan.
''Beaker thought so, now it's got his head...''}}
== Tabletop Games ==
* There's a ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh Card Game]]'' card called [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Giant_Germ Giant Germ] that deals damage and acts like an [[Asteroids Monster]].
* Phyrexian Living Weapons in ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' come into play automatically attached to a 0/0 Germ token. The germ can't survive on its own outside of the weapon, but with a few buffs to its toughness and power it's possible to beat things up with a giant Germ.
== Toys ==
* [http://www.giantmicrobes.com/ These toys] are pretty much this trope(in plush form). However, not all are infectious microbes. One is yeast, a few are cells.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* The comic ''[[Irritability]]'' played with this once, with Chappy bragging about his victory over a giant plankton.
{{quote|Chappy: It was huge!
'''Tatanya:''' Like this? ''(Pictures a building-sized plankton screeching "RAR!")''
'''Chappy:''' ...for a plankton. ''(Pictures himself grasping that same plankton, now about the size of an apple, and saying "I have u now!")'' }}
== [[Web Original]] ==
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