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* Averted in the ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' manga. Envy, despite [[No Biological Sex|its]] lithe and feminine physique, is very heavy, and as a result, makes very deep footprints and can break a steel fence after a short fall. This is noticed by the main characters and clues them in on the size of [[One-Winged Angel|Envy's true form...]]
* Subverted in the lesser known manga ''Momoiro 1/10'' -- The titular girl is 50 foot tall and weighs several tons. When she's shrunken to the size of a normal human, she still weighs several tons and is denser than lead. Trying to walk across the top floor of her school causes the floor to collapse, running across a parking lot causes a trail of destroyed concrete, etc etc.
* The first chapter of [[Mai Chans-chan's Daily Life]] shows that Mai's [[Healing Factor]] is fueled by organic matter. In this case, a butchered chicken stuffed into her [[Body Horror|abdominal cavity]].
* The [[Pokémon]] Ditto can change into 'mons of any size, but the [[Pokémon (anime)|anime]] once subverted it with a Ditto that couldn't change size.
* After the [[Magic Pants]], this is the second most common source of [[Fridge Logic]] in ''[[Ranma One Half½|Ranma 1/2]]'' whenever Jusenkyo transformations are concerned: Mousse, Shampoo, and Ryouga all change into smaller animals with no explanation as to where their mass goes, or where it comes from when they change back. Genma and Pantyhose Taro change into larger animals (in Taro's case, a chimera that is ''several'' stories tall.) On a lesser scale, Ranma, Herb, and Rouge also lose or gain mass drastically, even if they remain roughly human-shaped (in Rouge's case) or merely [[Gender Bender|change sex]] (for Ranma and Herb.) Might be justified in that [[Transformation Ray|Jusenkyo]] curses its victims with [[A Wizard Did It|magical transformations]].
* ''[[Saikano]]'' uses this, but doesn't attempt to handwave it or anything of the sort.
* [[Ridiculously-Human Robots|Boomers]] in the ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]'' series present this problem. How can a man-sized android shaped like an ordinary salaryman sprout enough mass to turn into a [[Humongous Mecha]] with [[Combat Tentacles|flailing tentacles]]?
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== Video Games ==
* [[Cute Bruiser|Suika]] [[Drunken Master|Ibuki]] from the ''[[Touhou]]'' games has the power to control density of things. Among other things, she can use it to [[Attack of the 50 -Foot Whatever|grow to an enormous size]] or turn into mist (even into a [[Ominous Fog|cloud of mist that envolved the whole region]]).
** What's especially weird is that she can also split her mass into ... small, complete versions of herself. At this point it's easier to remember that [[MST3K Mantra|ZUN is frequently drunk, and that putting more thought than he does into the subject is an exercise in futility/hilarity.]]
*** Well, clearly, she's increasing the ''population'' density of the surrounding area, by making more people to inhabit the same area.
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* On ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'', every fairy suffers from this. Let's just say "[[A Wizard Did It]]" and move on.
** The same fairies that regularly POOF! things into existence? The baggage is one of the least [[Egregious]] things about them.
* Jake from ''[[Adventure Time]]'' is an extreme example, being able to stretch to [[Attack of the 50 -Foot Whatever]]-scale on demand. One episode, "The Limit", explored what [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|limit]] there is to Jake's shapeshifting, and he didn't reach it until he had stretched a ''great'' distance. But that was due to his organs no longer functioning, so the hypothetical limit of how massive he can become hasn't been explored yet.
* Nobody's really sure where ''[[Kaeloo]]'' gets her extra mass when she [[Hulking Out|transforms]]. Interestingly, Mr. Cat, the other shapeshifter in the cast, doesn't appear to experience significant changes in mass despite his wide variety of forms.
* [[Cat Dog]] isn't even a shapeshifter, but they can still stretch over miles and miles with no loss of volume when, normally, their body is just a few feet long.
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