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{{quote|''[[Freud Was Right|"That... is one giant pussy."]]''|'''Yuri Hyuga''', ''[[Shadow Hearts|Shadow Hearts: Covenant]]''.}}

 

The name is a combination of ''Mega-'' from Greek ''megas'', meaning large or great, and ''Neko'' from the Japanese word for cat. It should not to be confused with [[Meganekko]] (two Ks, one word), which is about how bespectacled girls are cute. However, ''do'' compare with [[Cute Kitten]]. If this trope and [[Meganekko]] do overlap, she'll be a [[Funny Animal]], [[Genius Bruiser]] and [[Cute Monster Girl]].

 

** Got upgraded to a [[Panthera Awesome]] that could grow wings in [[The Movie]]. It was probably a good thing that Fate went on the attack this time.

* A student film in ''[[Kimagure Orange Road]]'' has 'Jingorojira', a [[Godzilla|Godzilla-sized]] version of Jingoro, the Kasugas' much-suffering housecat.

* In the first episode of season 3 of ''[[UFO Princess Valkyrie]]'', Cat-Eared Maid-Chief Sanada-san breaks out a [[Humongous Mecha|Mecha-]]Mega Neko in order to fight a [[Brainwashed|Brainwashing]] [[Meganekko]]. She counters by giving it a gigantic pair of glasses, thus turning it into a [[Overly Long Gag|Mecha-Meganekko-Mega-Neko]]. Perhaps a borderline example, but too awesome not to mention.

* Nyanko-Sensei from ''[[Natsume Yuujinchou]]'' is quite portly in general, being occasionally referred to as a 'pig-cat' - and when he jumps out of [[Sleep Mode Size]], he's a huge ''[[Canis Major|dog]]''. But the point where he really turns into this trope is in episode 12, when he comes into contact with a curse-mark that screws his powers up. His [[Sleep Mode Size]] shrinks to the size of a teacup, making him [[Ridiculously Cute Critter|hillariously cute]], but when he attempts to assume his 'true' form, he instead winds up as... a severely overweight cat the size of a small elephant.

 

== Comic Books ==

* One Italian [[Donald Duck]] [[Disney Ducks Comic Universe|comic]] had Donald's pet tomcat Tabby (who had appeared in a few comics before, usually as a foil to Fethry) drink a mysterious growth serum and grow to be bigger than a tiger. Interestingly enough, Tabby did not return to his normal size at the end of the story, and has not appeared in any comics since then.

 

* Shamisen, Kyon's cat, at one point of ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]''.

 

* In ''[[Team America: World Police]]'' the team is menaced by a "panther" that is very clearly just a regular house cat. In this case, the fact that the characters were all marionettes meant that they didn't even have to cheat to make the cat look big.

* [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ravage_%28ROTF%29 Ravage] from [[Transformers (film)|Transformers]], isn't he just adorable?

* ''[[Village of the Giants]]'' briefly has a giant cat as the result of the growth formula experiments.

 

== Literature ==

* Llyan, from Lloyd Alexander's ''[[The Chronicles of Prydain]]''. Fflewddur tames her with his harp and rides her in lieu of a horse.

* Anne Bishop's ''[[Black Jewels]]'' trilogy features plenty of [[Talking Animal|intelligent, telepathic animals]]. The most impressive of them is Kaelas, an Arcerian cat, described as "eight hundred pounds of feline fury".

* In [[Earth's Children|Clan of The Cave Bears]] sequel ''The Valley of Horses,'' Ayla rescues and raises a baby cave lion. The cave lions were larger than their modern counterparts to begin with, but [[Fluffy the Terrible|Baby]] was supposedly gigantic even for his species; because Ayla always made sure he had enough food and was not menaced by other lions or the weather, he was able to grow to his full potential. He was described at his full size as being as tall in the shoulder as a horse, and considerably longer from head to tail.

 

* The ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek TOS]]'' episode "Catspaw" featured a [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]] who turned herself into a giant cat. Unfortunately, [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|the drama was ruined]] by low budget special effects fail. The "giant" cat was very clearly just a regular house cat that was stuck in a box made to look like one of the hallways. It didn't help that we'd already seen her in regular-sized cat form - played by the same cat.

* ''[[The Goodies]]'' had Twinkle a.k.a "Kitten Kong".

* Oversized black felines were featured on ''Monsterquest'', which concluded that the investigated sightings were either escaped pet leopards, jaguars returning to their historical range, or ordinary housecats mistaken for giants due to a lack of nearby objects to show perspective.

* Steve French in ''[[Trailer Park Boys]]''.

 

== Music ==

* A parody of "My Grandfather's Clock", "My Grandmother's Cat" tells of an overfed feline that grows to tiger-like proportions and attempts to eat its owner.

* Shonen Knife's album Genki Shock includes a song called Giant Kitty (though apart from the [[Title Drop]] the lyrics suggest it's really normal sized).

 

== Toys ==

* [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp|Muaka]], the giant cyborg felines of ''[[Bionicle]]''

 

== Video Games ==

* Persian, Espeon, Delcatty, Liepard, and a whole bunch of other leopard-sized kitties from ''[[Pokémon]]''.

* ''[[Dark Souls]]'' features a large talking cat (roughly the size of a grizzly bear) named Alvina, who is also one of the game's covenant leaders. The game also features enemies called Great Felines, who are a fair bit bigger than Alvina.

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* "Second Wind". A man and a giant cat end up in a story about life & death http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erUMp1WZ6l4&feature=related

* Ambassador Rythax of the [[Whateley Universe]]. When Gateway first summons him, he's like a black panther the size of a tiger. With wings. He can be other sizes.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* The ''[[Captain Star]]'' episode "Waiting for Sputnik" features a cat that grows so big it endangers the planet.

* The web series (and soon to be Nickelodeon series) ''Making Fiends'' features a ginormous red cat as one of the titular "fiends".

* See Tex Avery's classic ''[[King Size Canary]]''.

* Super Kitty in the [[Fairly Oddparents]].

* PJ from Goof Troop.

* Fat Cat from ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'' towers over his cat henchmen, as well as the other feline characters.

 

== Real Life ==

* While not as huge as some of the fictional examples, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SZEPNYHMKQ Savannah Cats] are pretty big as far as pet cats go.

* The Maine Coon breed is generally considered to be the largest domestic cat breed, with some weighing in at over 25 pounds and 4 feet in length.

 

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