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[[File:mario sizeshifter 1587.jpg|link=Super Mario Bros.|frame|Mario gets a [[Power-Up|Super Mushroom]]]]

 

 

Compare [[Make My Monster Grow]], where a character makes a monster grow to great heights.

 

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* ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' has Guild Master [[Cool Old Guy|Makarov]] who is one of the strongest characters in the series, if not the strongest himself. Usually, though, he is a [[Miniature Senior Citizens|Miniature Senior Citizen]].

* The three main characters in ''[[Ultimate Girls]]'' have the ability to grow to 100 feet tall.

* [[Cardcaptor Sakura|Sakura Kinomoto]] can do this using her Clow Cards inventively called The Big and The Little, but it's one of her little used powers and mostly [[Played for Laughs]].

 

* Ant-Man and company (Black Goliath, [[Young Avengers|Stature]], Wasp, and Yellow Jacket) of [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]. Started out only being able to shrink. Later gained growth powers.

** The original Ant-Man, Hank Pym, invented [[Applied Phlebotinum|Pym Particles]] which enable this exact power, and allow anyone who can get their hands on them to use it. Said particles were used, among other things, to create a super-villain prison where all the villains were 6 inches tall. [[Cardboard Prison|Needless to say, there was a breakout.]]

* Little Cheese, from the [[Animal Superhero]] team ''[[Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew]]'', is anthro mouse who can shrink himself to the size of a real mouse.

 

* ''[[Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas]]'' has [[Big Bad|Eris, Goddess of Chaos]], able to shift between [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|normal and absolutely massive with no problem]]. It seems to mostly be for the sake of intimidation and just because she can, as she favors [[Batman Gambit|manipulating people based on their flaws]] and sending the occasional minion over stomping on random things herself.

* Ant-Man and both Wasps from the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]].

 

* [[Piers Anthony]]'s ''A Golem in the Gears'' features a character named Rapunzel who, due to her heritage as the daughter of Jordan the Barbarian and Bluebell Elf, can grow or shrink to any size she wants.

 

* Most heroes of the ''[[Ultra Series]]''. As well as the [[Godzilla]] franchise's [[Captain Ersatz]] of [[Ultraman]], Jet Jaguar.

* Justin Stewart of ''[[Power Rangers Turbo]]'', a ten-year-old [[Child Prodigy]] who was the blue ranger, shifted to adult size when he morphed for [[Stock Footage|some reason]]. He shifted back whenever he removed his helmet, oddly enough. It was almost like he could only maintain his shifted size in situations where he'd be played by a stunt double.

* The ''[[Misfits of Science]]'' had Dr. Elvin "El" Lincoln a really tall guy who could shrink.

* Crash Mc Larson on [[The Aquabats Super Show]] can grow to enormous, but it's controlled by his emotions.

 

* Perhaps needless to say, tabletop RPGs created to handle playing in the superhero genre usually include both powers. Fights between characters of massively disparate sizes can also seriously challenge a game's usual combat rules, which usually assume roughly human-sized opponents facing each other as the unspoken default and whose designers may not have stopped to consider how to address questions such as "can I climb/fly into my giant-sized opponent's ear and knock him out from there?"

* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''

* ''[[Villains and Vigilantes]]'' has both Growing and Shrinking powers.

 

* Clarence Willard of Ripley's ''Believe It or Not'' stage show could somehow shift his body so that he appeared to grow several inches.

 

* Toa Bomonga and Toa Norik of ''[[Bionicle]]'' fame wear a [[Mask of Power|Mask of Growth and Mask of Diminishment]], respectively.

 

* ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]''

** Mario, of course. Firstly he had the Super Mushrooms that made him grow. Then in ''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]'' a Mini Mushroom was introduced which shrunk him to fit into tiny spaces and [[Walking on Water]], as well as a Mega Mushroom which made him even bigger than with the Super Mushroom.

** [[Fat Bastard|Wyzen]] is this as well.

 

* Durkon from ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' occasionally transforms into a [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0111.html fifteen-foot-tall dwarf] when in dire straits. (Based on ''D&D'' spell Righteous Might, see above.)

* Vittoria of ''[[SERGOM]]'' can do this.

* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' has Her Undying Majesty Albia of England, who seems to [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180226 do this] with but a thought, as well as change her face and clothes. And [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20200605 claims] large size becomes more and more comfortable with time (of course, she is also old enough to remember when England wasn't separated from the continent). She becomes too hot to touch when decreasing in size, however this doesn't inconvenience herself. Also, she enlarged the body into which she was temporarily "[[Willing Channeler|channeled]]"; Lucrezia in "god mode" did so with the body she "possessed" as well.

 

* In the ''[[Whateley Universe]]'', not only are there many people who can do this, but there is more than one superpower that will let you do it. Some Warpers can shrink or grow by using a warp displacement field about themselves so that they don't change but their relationship to the outside world is altered. Some Shapeshifters can shrink or grow also, and ''they'' have the [[Magic Pants]] problem.

 

* Apache Chief from ''[[Superfriends]]''. Considering he's wearing a loincloth, we hope he's wearing some undies.

** His [[DCAU]] [[Expy]] Longshadow has the same power, but is sensible enough to wear pants.

 

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