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Lucky you, you just bought a [[Ridiculously Cute Critter|new pet]] at [[The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday]]. But you'd better be sure that you read the care-of manual very carefully. Odds are there is one thing that your pet should '''never''' under any circumstances get its hands on, otherwise it'll start growing...and growing...and growing, until it's a [[Attack of the 50
This may be a natural part of the creature's biology, or it could be the creature became exposed to [[Green Rocks]].
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* ''[[The Amazing Colossal Man]]''
* The Crites from the [[Critters]] film series grow after they eat.
* In ''[[
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[The Maw]],'' from the [[
* ''[[The Munchables]]'' for the Wii. Both player characters do this, but shrink back to normal at the end of every level when they...turn everything they ate into orbs.
* In the [[Wallace and Gromit]] game ''Fright of the Bumblebees'', bees who who had been fed pollen from flowers that Wallace had made grow to absurd proportions by a homemade fertilizer he had created out of the active ingredients of body-builder's weight gain formula grew to enormous size, with the queen ending up the size of his truck. One has to wonder if there were any side effects from eating the honey that the bees produced from that...
* While he's already [[Killer Rabbit|pretty competent in the combat area]], Little Birdie from [[Metroid: Other M]] later becomes {{spoiler|a bizarre, furry scorpion-dinosaur, then a space dragon. Yes, ''[[Arch Enemy|that]]'' space dragon. [[Joker Immunity]] at it's finest.}}
* A Wii-exclusive powerup in ''[[Sonic Colors]]'' involves becoming one of these.
* The titular blob in ''[[Tales From Space About A Blob|Tales From Space: About A Blob]]'' is one of these. It shrinks back down twice, but on it's third try, it grows bigger than the planet.
* In the various [[Ivalice Alliance]] games, the Carrot is an escaped pet that when the party encounters it turns out to have mutated into a massive malboro, a recurring creature in the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' games known for its ability to inflict multiple status ailments.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130719182359/http://www.drunkduck.com/Demon_Eater/ Saturno] gets larger the more demon s/he eats.
* Mentioned in a ''[[Narbonic]]'' strip, with a string of flashbacks of Artie coming to Helen with bad news, one of which is "A quantum singularity is swallowing the sealed-off section, and grenades just make it bigger!"
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [http://www.dingogames.com/tastyplanet/ Tasty Planet] and all the 50 other similar games.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100326081404/http://www.mspaintadventures.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=4930 Leak] has the main protagonist grow the more rock it eats.
* [http://tgchan.org/kusaba/quest/res/99095.html Slime Quest] has the titular slime grow bigger the more things it eats, but it can convert it's mass into upgrades.
* Rampage, from the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'', grows larger the angrier he gets... and he starts out pretty pissed off.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The ''[[Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!]]'' episode "[[Attack of the 50
* Beebo from ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' was designed to be fed only once in his lifetime, but the girls ended up feeding it once ''each''. It ends up eating half the town.
* A hamster during an ''[[Invader Zim]]'' episode gets larger and larger the more it eats.
* ''[[Viva Pinata]]'' episode "Confetti-itis" has this happen to most characters in the show.
* Tank on ''[[Lilo
* The ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'' episode "Muriel Blows Up" has this happen to each of the main characters.
* Happens to a little alien felon whom Guy Gardner douses with coffee in the [[Cold Open]] of one episode of ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]''.
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* In one ''[[Sushi Pack]]'' episode, a scientist creates a tiny dinosaur that eats trash. It accidentally gets splashed with chemicals, which makes it grow bit by bit with all the trash it eats. It also somehow gains the ability to turn anything into trash for it to eat.
* ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'': Yet another fine product from Misery Inc. Useful for a [[Clingy Jealous Girl]] needing to break up an alleged date her crush is on.
* In the [[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* An episode of ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'' has Dale adopting an alien lizard that appears to play the trope straight at first, before revealing that he is just as intelligent as the main characters. However, he loses intelligence at the same time as he gains size, and it's stated that the ancient dinosaurs were the result of a previous away team succumbing to this fate.
* ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]'' had Hak Fu summoning miniature shadowkhan. They failed to prove a threat until he discovered their shadow eating abilities. It rendered victims comatose and turned them into massive landsharks.
* In the [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]] episode [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* The Mongolian Fire Fist Demon from the ''[[Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness|Kung Fu Panda Legends of Awesomeness]]'' episode "Po Fans Out", which gets bigger whenever it gets hit.
* A once-off [[Mad Scientist]] villain in ''[[Atom Ant]]'' creates a "Gobbling Glob", a small gelatinous monster (looking something like a [[Pac-Man]] ghost) which is only the size of a baseball... but grows bigger and bigger as it eats. And it's ravenously hungry...
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