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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.

 

* [[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?"

** Originally introduced in the 1st Edition ''Oriental Adventures'' sourcebook (and then seen again in ''Complete Arcane'') are the Giant Size and Minute Form spells. Even a [[Squishy Wizard]] is going to hurt when she's hitting you with a ''tree''.

** Psionic characters have the [http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/powers/expansion.htm Expansion] power, which achieves the same effect. It has the added bonus of working on non-humanoids just as effectively as humanoids and even allowing the target to grow even more. There is, of course, an opposite that causes the target to reduce in size.

* In ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]'', there exists a Kith (sub-type) of the Ogres known as [[Our Giants Are Bigger|Gargantuans]]; their particular gift as Changelings is called Spurious Stature, which enables them to grow to enormous size for a brief time. Given the somewhat more subdued nature of the New World of Darkness, this is less extreme than most examples of this type, though a newly escaped Gargantuan can grow to the size of a gorilla or grizzly bear depending on their power. Supplementary material implies that their size-changing power is a consequence of their reduced power on Earth; supposedly, some Gargantuans remember being of perpetual giant-size in the domain of the Fae.

** The multi-kith rules also make it possible for other sorts of Ogres to do this as well, or any possible Changeling, depending on what's house-ruled in.

 

* 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.]]''

** [[Big Bad|Bowser]] had occasionally became a giant in some games, and [[Super Mario Galaxy|Rosalina]] actually has the ability to grow to the size of a planet!

** ''[[Wario Land]]'''s Wario, in symmetry with his redder counterpart—but he also loses most of his hair when he shrinks.

** [[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.

* Boltrin of ''[[Dragon Mail]]'' can grow once per day.

* Saurus from ''[[Zodiac (webcomic)|Zodiac]]'' has this ability.

 

* 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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