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* Moguchan, from an episode of ''Mirumu de Pon!", a plushie brought to life by Rirumu's magic, grew whenever it ate anything.
* In the second-to-last episode of ''[[Wandaba Style]],'' Michael Hanagata becomes enamored of Sachiko, a tentacle alien that gets bigger when exposed to water. Unfortunately, Michael takes her to play in the ocean...
* [[Demashita! Power PuffPowerpuff Girls Z]] has an episode where a duck grows bigger.
* [[Love Hina]] has an episode where a robot turtle grows bigger the more metal it eats.
* The last episode of [[FLCL]] has Mamimi feed a robot dog, which grows.
* Rage Shenron from ''[[Dragon Ball GT]]'' grows bigger the more [[Lightning Can Do Anything|electricity he absorbs]].
* In one episode of ''[[Wedding Peach (Manga)|Wedding Peach]]'', the Love Angels fight a snow demon that grows every time Angel Salvia cuts it with her sword.
* Happens to Nega (a tiny extra-terrestrial cat) when he is infected by Earth's common-cold virus, in the gag episode "The 'atchoo!' of horrors" of ''[[Magical Angel Creamy Mami]]''
 
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (Film)|Honey I Blew Up The Kid]]'' had a human baby who grew bigger whenever it was exposed to electricity.
* ''[[The Blob]]'' gets larger the more it eats.
* Hedorah from ''[[Godzilla]] VS The Smog Monster'' grows larger and more powerful the more it eats toxic waste.
* [[Evolution (Filmfilm)|Evolution]]: the aliens react to fire by melding and enlarging. So when the Army decides to napalm-bomb them...{{spoiler|they cause one singular cell to rapidly evolve into a simple, gigantic amoeba that wipes out a substantial amount of the military before it's de-evolved due to chemicals in shampoo.}}
* ''[[The Amazing Colossal Man]]''
* The Crites from the [[Critters]] film series grow after they eat.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Kitten Kong from ''[[The Goodies (TV)|The Goodies]]'', who ate feed laced with growth hormone and started growing a lot.
 
== [[Radio]] ==
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* ''[[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 (Video Game)|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.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The ''[[Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!]]'' episode "[[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever|Attack of the 50-Foot Fleegle]]": Wubbzy's new pet is never supposed to be fed candy, specifically because of this trope.
* 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 and Stitch: The Series]]'' has this happen to him the more he eats.
* 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: theThe Brave And The Bold (Animation)|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]''.
* Eileen aka "Birthday Girl" on ''[[Word Girl]]'' gets bigger (and greener) the greedier she gets.
* The sponge monster from the ''[[My Life Asas a Teenage Robot]]'' episode "Speak No Evil" grew every time it was exposed to water.
* ''[[Johnny Test]]'' also had a sponge monster that grew when it was exposed to water.
* In ''[[Veggie Tales (Animation)|Veggie Tales]]'', a monster representing a lie Junior Asparagus told keeps getting bigger as Junior has to tell bigger and bigger lies in order to cover up the first lie he made.
** There was a similar episode in which a "Rumor Weed" grew and eventually took over the town as a rumor spread and [[Gossip Evolution|became more and more exaggerated]].
* 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 and Mandy]] episode named "Brains!", this happens to a Meteor that falls out of a sky that eats brains.
* An episode of ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (Animationanimation)|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 (Animation)|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 (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]] episode [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E10 Secret of My Excess|"Secret of My Excess"]], Spike becomes bigger and bigger the greedier he gets.
* The Mongolian Fire Fist Demon from the ''[[Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness (Animation)|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 [[PacmanPac-Man]] ghost) which is only the size of a baseball... but grows bigger and bigger as it eats. And it's ravenously hungry...
* [[My Life Asas a Teenage Robot]]
 
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